Erixanium

No picture of Erixanium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Erixanium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphelaspidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Aphelaspidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 7.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 486.85 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 484.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 26 of 27 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOrdovician497–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 3 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 2 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494.2 Mya486.85 Mya497.5 Mya483.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Erixanium 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

27 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

11 formations

Zhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EOrr — 36.17°N, 115.14°WOrr — 38.54°N, 113.54°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WHuaqiao — 28.05°N, 109.42°EHuayansi — 28.90°N, 118.50°EHuayansi — 28.82°N, 118.60°EChopko — 68.92°N, 88.67°ENopah — 40.00°N, 115.00°WTybo Shale — 38.00°N, 116.00°WTomahawk — 22.15°S, 131.59°EDunderberg Shale — 39.97°N, 114.88°WDunderberg — 37.15°N, 116.00°W

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The named rock units Erixanium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Erixanium and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Erixanium and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Erixanium, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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

Media content0

No picture of Erixanium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Erixanium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1963