Caryocaris
Searched as Caryocaris wrighti. The Paleobiology Database treats Caryocaris as the accepted name.
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 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 459.7 Mya.
3 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
3 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
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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.
Caryocaris and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Caryocaris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Didymograptus16 sites
- Climacograptus10 sites
- Glyptograptus10 sites
- Glossograptus9 sites
- Isograptus7 sites
- Phyllograptus7 sites
- Tetragraptus6 sites
- Amplexograptus5 sites
- Clonograptus5 sites
- Diplograptus5 sites
- Cryptograptus4 sites
- Dicellograptus4 sites
- Adelograptus3 sites
- Dichograptus3 sites
- Dictyonema3 sites
- Orbiculoidea3 sites
- Orthograptus3 sites
- Pseudoclimacograptus3 sites
- Pseudoclimacograptus scharenbergi3 sites
- Cardiograptus2 sites
- Corynoides tricornis2 sites
- Cryptograptus tricornis2 sites
- Dicellograptus sextans exilis2 sites
- Geragnostus2 sites
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
1 referenceEach 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 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 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.
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