Flexicalymene caractaci

No picture of Flexicalymene caractaci 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 Flexicalymene caractaci, 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 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 455 Mya to 454 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 451.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–454 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455 Mya – 454 Mya458.7 Mya450.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Flexicalymene caractaci 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

17 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

7 formations

Cheney Longville — 52.50°N, 2.80°WGelli-grîn — 52.92°N, 3.60°WGelli-grîn — 52.93°N, 4.03°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WArnestad — 61.08°N, 11.75°EFuruberget — 60.37°N, 10.42°EAlternata Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.85°WAllt-Tair-Ffynnon — 52.75°N, 3.20°W

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

Flexicalymene caractaci and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Flexicalymene caractaci, 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

8 references

Each of the 17 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 Flexicalymene caractaci 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 Flexicalymene caractaci, 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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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)