Remopleurides occidens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RemopleuridesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurides
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurides
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 900 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Remopleurides occidens 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Remopleurides occidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Remopleurides occidens and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Remopleurides occidens and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Orthambonites decipiens3 sites
- Valcourea angulata3 sites
- Anataphrus spurius2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Conularia1 site
- Isotelus1 site
- Lonchodomas1 site
- Pelmatozoa1 site
- Strophomenida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Remopleurides occidens, 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- Middle and Upper(?) Ordovician Rocks of Independence Quadrangle, California2
- Notes on certain Ordovician faunas of the Inyo Mountains, California1
Each of the 3 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 Remopleurides occidens
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Remopleurides occidens 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 itRemopleurides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phleger 1933