Dimeropygiella ovata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DimeropygiellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dimeropygidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Dimeropygiella ovata 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
- Ninemile Formation2
- Fillmore Formation · Pogonip Group2
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The named rock units Dimeropygiella ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dimeropygiella ovata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Dimeropygiella ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Carolinites2 sites
- Dimeropygiella blanda2 sites
- Heckethornia alticapitis2 sites
- Jeffersonia2 sites
- Lemureops lemurei2 sites
- Pseudocybele altinasuta2 sites
- Ptyocephalus acclivus2 sites
- Acidiphorus1 site
- Bellerophontina1 site
- Catoraphiceras1 site
- Dimeropygiella fillmorensis1 site
- Diparalasma sp.1 site
- Euomphalina1 site
- Hesperonomia1 site
- Idiostrophia1 site
- Leiostrototropis1 site
- Megalaspides1 site
- Presbynileus elongatus1 site
- Presbynileus ibexensis1 site
- Protopliomerops1 site
- Protopliomerops quattuor1 site
- Trematorthis1 site
- Trigonocerca1 site
- Trigonocerca typica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dimeropygiella ovata, 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
3 references- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada2
- Systematics of the Ordovician trilobites Ischyrotoma and Dimeropygiella, with species from the Type Ibexian area, western U.S.A.1
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea1
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. 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
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No picture of Dimeropygiella ovata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Dimeropygiella ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dimeropygiella ovata 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 itDimeropygiella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze 1953)