Cyclopyge

Searched as Cyclopyge marginata. The Paleobiology Database treats Cyclopyge as the accepted name.

Cyclopyge

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
CyclopygidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 10 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.6 Mya442.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Cyclopyge 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

10 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

4 formations

Domusnovas — 40.32°N, 8.65°EDomusnovas — 39.44°N, 8.42°EDomusnovas — 39.44°N, 8.51°EDomusnovas — 39.33°N, 8.67°EDomusnovas — 39.24°N, 8.49°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°ERhiwlas Limestone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WPyle Mountain Argillite — 46.68°N, 68.22°W

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The named rock units Cyclopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclopyge and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyclopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

865 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Cyclopyge, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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. 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 Cyclopyge

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cyclopyge 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 itCyclopygidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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