Calymene niagarensis

Calymene niagarensis is a species of trilobite belonging to the genus Calymene. These nektobenthic carnivores lived in the Middle Silurian, from 436.0 to 426.2 Ma.

Calymene niagarensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalymenePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Calymenidae
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Calymenidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Calymenidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Calymenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 26 occurrencesSilurian — about 26 of 26 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

26 occurrences of Calymene niagarensis 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

26 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

14 formations

Rochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WRochester Shale — 43.16°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.00°N, 79.00°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WWillowvale — 42.94°N, 74.86°WWillowvale — 43.04°N, 75.36°WIrondequoit — 43.18°N, 78.72°WIrondequoit — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.28°N, 76.60°WHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WHerkimer — 43.04°N, 75.36°WGlenmark Shale — 43.15°N, 77.06°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WMcKenzie — 39.62°N, 78.22°WRochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°WWolcott — 43.25°N, 76.87°WWestmoreland — 43.04°N, 75.36°WSauquoit — 43.03°N, 75.28°W

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

Calymene niagarensis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Calymene niagarensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Calymene niagarensis, 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 26 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 content1

Picture of Calymene niagarensis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Calymene niagarensis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Hall 1843