Carrickia athleta
No picture of Carrickia athleta 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 Carrickia athleta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhorocephalaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 448.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Carrickia athleta 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Carrickia athleta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Carrickia athleta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Carrickia athleta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Pseudosphaerexochus2 sites
- Sphaerexochus calvus2 sites
- Cyphoniscus socialis1 site
- Hadromeros keisleyensis1 site
- Holotrachelus punctillosus cilldaricus1 site
- Oedicybele1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus conformis1 site
- Sphaerocoryphe punctata1 site
- Tiresias1 site
- Tiresias insculptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Carrickia athleta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Carrickia athleta 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 Carrickia athleta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carrickia athleta 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 itPhorocephala through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dean 1971