Ampyxinella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphiophorinaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 454 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 17 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454.5 Mya442.6 Mya

17 occurrences of Ampyxinella 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

17 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

6 formations

Yingan — 40.64°N, 79.50°EYinpingshan — 41.22°N, 87.57°EHuangnigang — 29.00°N, 119.00°ETangtou — 32.00°N, 119.00°EHuangnekang — 30.98°N, 113.11°EAkdombak — 48.52°N, 78.87°E

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The named rock units Ampyxinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ampyxinella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ampyxinella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Ampyxinella, 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

6 references

Each of the 17 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Ampyxinella 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 itRaphiophorinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Korleva 1959