Calymenidius

Calymenidius is an extinct genus of trilobites.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LonchocephalidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Lonchocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486.85 Mya471.3 Mya497.8 Mya456.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Calymenidius on record. 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

3 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

3 formations

Rabbitkettle — 64.59°N, 130.00°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WSurvey Peak — 52.03°N, 116.84°W

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

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Calymenidius, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Calymenidius 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.

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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What may have been alongside itLonchocephalidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1944