Ampyxoides semicostatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpyxoidesPBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Ampyxoides semicostatus 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
14 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
2 formations
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group12
- Bugryshikha Formation2
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The named rock units Ampyxoides semicostatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ampyxoides semicostatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ampyxoides semicostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Porterfieldia fischeri12 sites
- Niobe morrisi11 sites
- Stegnopsis huttoni11 sites
- Lonchodomas normalis10 sites
- Niobe quadraticaudata10 sites
- Nileus affinis9 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) americana9 sites
- Nileus macrops8 sites
- Raymondaspis reticulatus8 sites
- Robergia schlotheimi8 sites
- Geragnostus fabius6 sites
- Peraspis lineolata6 sites
- Shumardia sagittula6 sites
- Cybelurus mirus5 sites
- Galbagnostus galba5 sites
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis5 sites
- Harpides atlanticus5 sites
- Illaenus consimilis5 sites
- <cybelinid>4 sites
- Endymionia schucherti4 sites
- Illaenus gelasinus4 sites
- Blosyropsis billingsi3 sites
- Ceraurinella polydorus3 sites
- Nileus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ampyxoides semicostatus, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland12
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai2
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Ampyxoides semicostatus 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 Ampyxoides semicostatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampyxoides semicostatus 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 itAmpyxoides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1865)