Ampyxina

No picture of Ampyxina 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 Ampyxina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphiophoridaePBDB
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 least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 37 occurrencesOrdovician — about 37 of 37 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 37 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya449.6 Mya487.7 Mya442.2 Mya

37 occurrences of Ampyxina 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

37 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

17 formations

Solvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 59.88°N, 10.72°ESolvang — 59.90°N, 10.63°EEdinburg — 38.00°N, 79.00°WEdinburg — 38.84°N, 78.55°WEdinburg — 38.54°N, 78.76°WEdinburg — 38.56°N, 78.86°WBalclatchie — 54.84°N, 4.05°WBalclatchie — 55.22°N, 4.85°WRoad River — 64.50°N, 130.00°WRoad River — 65.35°N, 133.50°WRoad River — 62.00°N, 127.50°WRoad River — 61.70°N, 125.55°WNakkholmen — 61.33°N, 8.80°ENakkholmen — 59.90°N, 10.63°ENakkholmen — 59.84°N, 10.54°EDawangou — 40.64°N, 79.50°EWhitesburg — 35.96°N, 83.92°WLantz Mills — 38.53°N, 78.60°WLiberty Hall — 38.53°N, 78.60°WCaesar Canyon Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WSaturday Mountain — 44.28°N, 114.50°WTongtou — 31.00°N, 117.00°ESunblood — 61.50°N, 125.85°WCampile — 53.50°N, 7.17°WValhallfonna — 79.00°N, 18.00°EDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WAthens — 36.88°N, 81.72°W

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The named rock units Ampyxina 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.

Ampyxina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ampyxina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Ampyxina, 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

20 references

Each of the 37 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Ampyxina 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 Ampyxina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ampyxina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ullrich 1922