Pterygometopus

Pterygometopus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.1 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 70 of 70 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 70 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 10 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 7 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 3 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 3 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469.1 Mya449.6 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

70 occurrences of Pterygometopus 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

70 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

24 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°EHolen — 58.56°N, 15.28°EHolen — 58.62°N, 13.37°EHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EHolen — 57.00°N, 16.82°EHolen — 56.62°N, 16.56°ELebanon Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.13°WLebanon Limestone — 35.45°N, 86.88°WLebanon Limestone — 36.00°N, 86.45°WLebanon Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WCarters — 36.19°N, 85.95°WRio-Schiefer — 39.60°N, 5.24°WLebanon — 36.14°N, 86.38°WLebanon — 35.81°N, 86.13°WLebanon — 36.01°N, 86.42°WMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.94°N, 86.38°WMurfreesboro Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ELaval — 45.58°N, 74.00°WScales — 43.52°N, 91.77°WMaquoketa — 43.61°N, 92.43°WCarters Limestone — 35.80°N, 86.12°WElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°ERidley Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WAmadjuak — 63.72°N, 68.97°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EHolen Limestone — 58.55°N, 15.37°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°EChasmops Limestone — 58.77°N, 17.42°E

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The named rock units Pterygometopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterygometopus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pterygometopus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

798 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Pterygometopus, 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

22 references

Each of the 70 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Pterygometopus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schmidt 1881)