Ampyx nasutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpyxPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Ampyx nasutus 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
23 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ampyx nasutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ampyx nasutus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ampyx nasutus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps12 sites
- Illaenus12 sites
- Metopolichas celorrhin10 sites
- Pliomera fisheri10 sites
- Ptychopyge10 sites
- Megistaspis9 sites
- Cyrtometopus affinis7 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata7 sites
- Cyrtometopus5 sites
- Niobe frontalis5 sites
- Pterygometopus sclerops5 sites
- Remopleurides5 sites
- Cyrtometopus clavifrons4 sites
- Laneites ingrica4 sites
- Pseudasaphus4 sites
- Trinodus4 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda3 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons3 sites
- Metopolichas verrucosus3 sites
- Nieszkowskia tumida3 sites
- Pterygometopus3 sites
- Antigonambonites2 sites
- Asaphus expansus2 sites
- Iru2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Ampyx nasutus, 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- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland16
- Description of the upper portion of the drill-core from Finngrundet in the South Bothnian Bay5
- Upper Arenig trilobite biostratigraphy and sea-level changes at Lynna River near Volkhov, Russia1
- The revision of structural - facial zonation and stratigraphy of the lower part of the Ordovician in the south - east Baltic area1
Each of the 23 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 Ampyx nasutus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ampyx nasutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampyx nasutus 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.
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What may have been alongside itAmpyx through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)