Dicranurus oviformis
No picture of Dicranurus oviformis 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 Dicranurus oviformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicranurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dicranurus oviformis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dicranurus oviformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicranurus oviformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dicranurus oviformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Ampyx abnormalis1 site
- Annamitella1 site
- Birmanites1 site
- Birmanites hupeiensis1 site
- Bumastoides shihtzupuensis1 site
- Calymenesun tingi1 site
- Cybelurus1 site
- Hastiremopleurides shihtzupuensis1 site
- Illaenus (Parillaenus) yohi1 site
- Illaenus tingi1 site
- Lonchodomas yohi1 site
- Metopolichas1 site
- Prionocheilus pulcher parapulcher1 site
- Prosopiscus rugosus1 site
- Rhombampyx yii1 site
- Tairongia browni1 site
- Telephina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dicranurus oviformis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dicranurus oviformis 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 Dicranurus oviformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dicranurus oviformis 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 itDicranurus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu and Chang 1974