Dorypyge

No picture of Dorypyge 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 Dorypyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DorypyginaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dorypygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508.2 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516.2 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 80 of 80 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 80 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 10 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 9 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 5 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 5 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 6 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 6 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 8 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 8 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 8 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 4 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508.2 Mya497 Mya516.8 Mya486.3 Mya

80 occurrences of Dorypyge 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

80 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

22 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°ETrailer — 39.88°N, 113.05°WSosink — 37.30°N, 40.30°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°ESpurs — 71.55°S, 165.30°ESpurs — 71.34°S, 163.21°EZhangxia — 35.57°N, 110.47°EZhangxia — 34.75°N, 110.62°EXijiadian — 32.80°N, 111.45°EOlenek — 72.69°N, 124.51°EMila — 36.11°N, 50.63°EUpper Comley Sandstone — 52.00°N, 2.00°WHillard Limestone — 65.02°N, 141.20°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WDedebulak — 40.40°N, 72.35°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WPulgon — 40.38°N, 73.34°EBaguamiao — 32.22°N, 108.42°EYangliugang — 31.37°N, 120.95°EPaotaishan — 31.38°N, 120.93°ELabaz — 68.00°N, 88.82°ECampo Pisano — 39.40°N, 8.52°ESwasey Limestone — 38.83°N, 114.33°WMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°W

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The named rock units Dorypyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorypyge and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dorypyge and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

190 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Dorypyge, 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

24 references

Each of the 80 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. 12 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 content0

No picture of Dorypyge 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 Dorypyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dorypyge 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.

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What may have been alongside itDorypyginae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dames 1883