Emmrichops

Emmrichops is a genus of average size trilobite, assigned to the Cyclopygidae family, that lived during the Middle Ordovician (Llanvirn), and have been found in what are today the Czech Republic and in Wales. Like other cyclopygids, it has huge eyes, that occupy almost the entire free cheeks, six thorax segments and a wide tail shield. Like the other cyclopygids, Emmrichops probably lived hunting plankton in the water column. Only one species, E. planicephala, has been described sofar.

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

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 1.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461 Mya and 459.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461.5 Mya459.2 Mya

3 occurrences of Emmrichops 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

3 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

1 formation

Dobrotivá — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDobrotivá — 50.08°N, 14.33°E

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

Emmrichops and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Emmrichops and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Emmrichops, 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 reference

Each of the 3 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 Emmrichops 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 Emmrichops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Emmrichops 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Marek 1961