Pseudomera barrandei

Pseudomera barrandei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudomeraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 45 of 45 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence470.3 Mya468 Mya471.8 Mya456.8 Mya

45 occurrences of Pseudomera barrandei on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

45 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Table Point — 50.70°N, 57.41°WTable Point — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Point — 49.38°N, 57.73°WSunblood — 62.18°N, 126.70°WSunblood — 61.20°N, 125.78°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 36.93°N, 117.16°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WTable Cove — 50.18°N, 57.62°WOil Creek — 34.35°N, 97.04°WOil Creek — 34.36°N, 97.14°WOil Creek — 34.43°N, 97.35°WKanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WKanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WBadger Flat — 36.91°N, 118.06°WJoins — 34.43°N, 97.35°WLower Head — 49.82°N, 54.09°W

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The named rock units Pseudomera barrandei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudomera barrandei and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudomera barrandei and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Pseudomera barrandei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 45 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pseudomera barrandei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudomera barrandei was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPseudomera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)