Quadrijugator

No picture of Quadrijugator was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Quadrijugator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QuadrijugatoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459.7 Mya449.6 Mya461.5 Mya445 Mya

7 occurrences of Quadrijugator 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

7 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

4 formations

Fonte da Horta — 41.00°N, 8.00°WFonte da Horta — 40.00°N, 8.00°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°W

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

Quadrijugator and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Quadrijugator and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Quadrijugator, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 Quadrijugator was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Quadrijugator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Quadrijugator 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 itQuadrijugatoridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.