Caryocaris

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryocarididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 30 occurrencesOrdovician — about 28 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 30 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 30 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–477 Mya — about 2 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya443.1 Mya488 Mya418 Mya

30 occurrences of Caryocaris 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

30 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

19 formations

Road River — 65.02°N, 141.21°WRoad River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WRoad River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WLower Road River — 64.95°N, 141.04°WLower Road River — 65.19°N, 141.32°WPalmetto — 37.97°N, 117.96°WPalmetto — 37.89°N, 117.86°WDeepkill Shale — 42.65°N, 73.76°WNormanskill — 42.65°N, 73.76°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WDuo Lake — 64.70°N, 130.80°WToyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EKlabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°EXiahuangkeng — 22.00°N, 112.00°EXingchang — 22.00°N, 112.00°EQiaotingzi — 29.00°N, 112.00°EBaishuixi — 29.00°N, 112.00°ENingguo — 29.00°N, 119.00°EEmpozada — 33.00°S, 69.00°WShiHuiGou — 38.00°N, 95.00°EDuoQuanShan — 38.00°N, 95.00°ECedarburg — 32.30°S, 18.97°EEmigrant — 37.90°N, 117.88°W

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The named rock units Caryocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryocaris and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Caryocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Caryocaris, 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

17 references

Each of the 30 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Caryocaris 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 Caryocaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Caryocaris 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 itCaryocarididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1863