Pseudomera insolita
No picture of Pseudomera insolita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudomera insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pseudomera insolita 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Wah Wah Formation · Pogonip Group6
- Wahwah Limestone Formation3
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The named rock units Pseudomera insolita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudomera insolita and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pseudomera insolita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Cybelopsis7 sites
- Lachnostoma latucelsum7 sites
- Acidiphorus4 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca4 sites
- Dimeropygiella caudanodosa4 sites
- Hesperonomia4 sites
- Pseudocybele nasuta4 sites
- Acidiphorus brighti3 sites
- Kirkella declevita3 sites
- Benthamaspis diminutiva2 sites
- Diparelasma2 sites
- Raphistomina2 sites
- Zittelloceras2 sites
- Barrandia1 site
- Bellerophontina1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Forteyops sexapugia1 site
- Goniotelina brevis1 site
- Isoteloides polaris1 site
- Lachnostoma1 site
- Lesueurilla1 site
- Presbynileus utahensis1 site
- Tritoechia sinuata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pseudomera insolita, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah6
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea2
- Reworking diversity: effects of storm deposition on evenness and sampled richness, Ordovician of the Basin and Range, Utah and Nevada1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Pseudomera insolita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudomera insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudomera insolita 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. (Poulsen 1927)