Conocoryphidae

Conocoryphidae is a family of trilobites within the order Ptychopariida. Members of this family have been recorded from the Cambrian to early Ordivician from 513 to 478 MYA. Members of this family have been uncovered in the United States, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Greenland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

Conocoryphidae

Skye McDavid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PtychopariidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 110 of 110 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 12 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 12 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 10 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 9 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 9 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 9 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 9 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 9 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 8 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 7 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 7 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences516 Mya500.5 Mya521.5 Mya496.5 Mya

110 occurrences of Conocoryphidae 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

110 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

26 formations

Jince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EJince — 49.00°N, 14.00°EChamberlain's Brook — 45.28°N, 66.03°WChamberlain's Brook — 47.49°N, 53.02°WChamberlain's Brook — 45.43°N, 65.63°WChamberlain's Brook — 46.27°N, 66.07°WChamberlain's Brook — 45.27°N, 66.07°WChamberlain's Brook — 45.39°N, 65.76°WMurero — 41.17°N, 1.48°WMurero — 41.52°N, 1.50°WMurero — 41.67°N, 1.76°WHsuchuang — 34.75°N, 110.62°EHsuchuang — 34.98°N, 106.73°EHsuchuang — 34.63°N, 112.97°EHsuchuang — 34.80°N, 111.90°EHsuchuang — 35.42°N, 114.05°ESosink — 37.30°N, 40.30°EBuchava — 49.98°N, 13.77°EBuchava — 49.96°N, 13.74°EBuchava — 49.93°N, 14.05°ESkryje — 49.95°N, 13.77°EKoruk — 37.42°N, 43.63°EValtorres — 41.65°N, 1.81°WFerrals — 43.40°N, 2.63°ELa Gardie — 43.40°N, 2.63°ELa Gardie — 43.90°N, 2.10°EOville — 43.00°N, 5.00°WOville — 42.85°N, 5.87°WSkryje Shale — 49.97°N, 13.77°EAlum Shale — 58.76°N, 15.52°ELos Villares — 38.00°N, 4.80°WQuartzites et Poudingues de Trémentines — 47.09°N, 0.25°WOlenek — 72.69°N, 124.51°EKap Stanton — 81.72°N, 17.80°WPoudingue de Vihiers — 47.07°N, 1.11°WSenice — 49.88°N, 15.57°EMantou — 36.42°N, 116.88°EFengjia'ao — 32.73°N, 111.17°ECampo Pisano — 39.40°N, 8.52°EMenevia — 51.87°N, 5.22°W

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The named rock units Conocoryphidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conocoryphidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Conocoryphidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Conocoryphidae, 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

42 references

Each of the 110 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. 30 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 Conocoryphidae

Credit
Skye McDavid
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Conocoryphidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1854