Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene)

No picture of Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) 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 Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 85 of 87 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 87 occurrencesSilurian458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 8 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 13 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 13 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 13 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 13 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453.8 Mya438.6 Mya457.8 Mya432.4 Mya

87 occurrences of Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) 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

87 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

23 formations

Denley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDenley Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.88°N, 75.49°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.58°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGroos Quarry — 46.35°N, 85.52°WGroos Quarry — 45.92°N, 86.97°WGroos Quarry — 45.81°N, 87.10°WArnestad — 61.08°N, 11.75°EArnestad — 59.90°N, 10.55°EArnestad — 59.86°N, 10.46°ERust — 43.28°N, 75.14°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMartinsburg — 38.52°N, 78.89°WMartinsburg — 38.30°N, 78.01°WMartinsburg — 38.25°N, 79.05°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSugar River Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WSugar River Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WSodus — 43.24°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WSimard — 48.47°N, 71.05°WDolgeville Facies — 43.21°N, 75.46°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WChandler Falls — 45.83°N, 87.09°WBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.13°EKimmswick — 38.32°N, 90.38°WNakkholmen — 59.86°N, 10.46°EGalets — 48.65°N, 71.21°WShipshaw — 48.64°N, 71.20°W

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The named rock units Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) 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.

Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene), 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

18 references

Each of the 87 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. 6 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene) 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 Flexicalymene (Flexicalymene), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itFlexicalymene through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siveter 1977