Cyclopyge vigilans
No picture of Cyclopyge vigilans 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 Cyclopyge vigilans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclopygePBDB
- 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 7.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cyclopyge vigilans 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
4 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 Cyclopyge vigilans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclopyge vigilans and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclopyge vigilans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Diacalymene consimilis3 sites
- Encrinurus3 sites
- Lonchodomas3 sites
- Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) insolens3 sites
- Microparia (Heterocyclopyge) kindlei3 sites
- Symphysops spinifera3 sites
- Tretaspis3 sites
- Calyptaulax glabella2 sites
- Ceraurinus icarus2 sites
- Ceraurus2 sites
- Christiania2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Cyphoproetus bellus2 sites
- Harpidella minima2 sites
- Holtedahlina sulcata2 sites
- Kullervo2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) septata2 sites
- Otarion2 sites
- Ptychopleurella2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Remopleurides striatus2 sites
- Sowerbyella gigantea2 sites
- Sphaeragnostus gaspensis2 sites
- Sphaerexochus bridgei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclopyge vigilans, 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
2 references- New brachiopods and trilobites from the Ordovician of Perce, Quebec3
- Ordovician and Silurian trilobite faunas of the White Head Formation, Percé Region, Québec1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Cyclopyge vigilans 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 Cyclopyge vigilans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclopyge vigilans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyclopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooper and Kindle 1936)