Flexicalymene cambrensis

Flexicalymene cambrensis

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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 most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461.6 Mya457.7 Mya

25 occurrences of Flexicalymene cambrensis 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

25 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

4 formations

Ffairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Conglomerate — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°W

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

Flexicalymene cambrensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Flexicalymene cambrensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Flexicalymene cambrensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 25 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

Media content1

Picture of Flexicalymene cambrensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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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. (Salter 1865)