Condylopyge

Condylopyge is a genus of agnostid trilobite that lived during the late Lower and early Middle Cambrian, in what are today Canada, the Czech Republic, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey and Sweden. It can easily be distinguished from all other Agnostida because the frontal glabellar lobe is notably wider than the rear lobe. It belongs to the same family as Pleuroctenium but the frontal glabellar lobe does not fold around the rear lobe, as it does in that genus. Condylopyge is long ranging, possibly spanning the early Cambrian Terreneuvian Series in Nuneaton, central England into at least Drumian strata at various locations elsewhere.

Condylopyge

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CondylopygidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Condylopygidae

Time the record covers

At least 2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–496 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506.5 Mya – 504.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Condylopyge on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

18 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

13 formations

Campo Pisano — 39.43°N, 8.48°EBorgholm — 57.12°N, 16.99°EKuonamka — 69.66°N, 124.18°EChamberlain's Brook — 42.21°N, 71.00°WLos Villares — 38.00°N, 4.80°WJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°ESkryje — 49.95°N, 13.77°ESkryje Shale — 49.97°N, 13.77°EOville — 42.85°N, 5.87°WValdemiedes — 41.17°N, 1.48°WMurero — 41.67°N, 1.76°WPurley Shale — 52.53°N, 1.49°WAbbey Shale — 52.55°N, 1.53°W

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The named rock units Condylopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Condylopyge and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Condylopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Condylopyge, 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

14 references

Each of the 18 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Condylopyge

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itCondylopygidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847