Girardina liopyga

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 379 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian379–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379.5 Mya371.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Girardina liopyga on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 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

2 formations

Vogelsberg — 50.60°N, 11.40°EHirtenrangen — 50.63°N, 11.38°E

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

Girardina liopyga and its relatives

Devonian

Where Girardina liopyga and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Girardina liopyga, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Girardina liopyga 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itGirardina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richter 1863)