Scharyia micropyga
No picture of Scharyia micropyga 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 Scharyia micropyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScharyiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Scharyiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
12 occurrences of Scharyia micropyga on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
12 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Scharyia micropyga 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.
Scharyia micropyga and its relatives
SilurianWhere Scharyia micropyga and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Ananaspis fecunda8 sites
- Decoroproetus reussi4 sites
- Interproetus intermedius4 sites
- Interproetus venustus4 sites
- Coniproetus ryckholti3 sites
- Cyrtia3 sites
- Kosovopeltis3 sites
- Leonaspis leonhardi3 sites
- Leptaena provellerosa3 sites
- Otarion diffractum3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypoidea2 sites
- Baturria2 sites
- Bohemoharpes (Unguloharpes) ungula2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Clarkeia2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cryptophyllus2 sites
- Decoroscutellum2 sites
- Dicoelosia biloba2 sites
- Gladiostrophia2 sites
- Gracianella2 sites
- Harpidella (Harpidella)2 sites
- Havlicekia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Scharyia micropyga, 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- Bohemian Silurian and Devonian Proetidae (Trilobita)7
- The Affinities of the Trilobite Genus Scharyia, with a Description of two new species2
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)1
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia1
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II.1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Scharyia micropyga 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 Scharyia micropyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scharyia micropyga 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 itScharyia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)