Pyraustocranium orbatum

Pyraustocranium orbatum

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyraustocraniumPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 1.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 481.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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4 occurrences of Pyraustocranium orbatum 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

4 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

1 formation

Garden City — 42.11°N, 111.64°W

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The named rock units Pyraustocranium orbatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pyraustocranium orbatum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pyraustocranium orbatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pyraustocranium orbatum, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pyraustocranium orbatum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
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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What may have been alongside itPyraustocranium through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951