Flexicalymene (Reacalymene)

Searched as Reacalymene. The Paleobiology Database treats Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) as the accepted name.

No picture of Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) 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 Flexicalymene (Reacalymene), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlexicalymenePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Calymenidae
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Flexicalymene
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Flexicalymene
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Calymenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 450.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457.2 Mya452.8 Mya458.7 Mya450 Mya

8 occurrences of Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) 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

8 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

7 formations

Pen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WLindero — 35.20°S, 68.23°WSolvang — 60.30°N, 10.52°EAllt Ddu — 52.92°N, 3.60°WGlyn Gower Siltstones — 52.92°N, 3.60°W

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The named rock units Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Flexicalymene (Reacalymene), 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) 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 Flexicalymene (Reacalymene), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shirley 1936