Harpides

Harpides is an extinct genus of harpetid trilobite of the family Harpididae.

Harpides

Kozuch · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HarpididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Harpididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 36 occurrencesOrdovician — about 36 of 36 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482.9 Mya471.3 Mya487.4 Mya456.7 Mya

36 occurrences of Harpides 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

36 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

13 formations

Table Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WCeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 57.00°N, 17.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°EOutram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EPanjiazui — 29.00°N, 111.00°EXiangGuLeTag — 43.00°N, 90.00°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ELower Fezouata — 30.51°N, 6.07°WBjørkåsholmen — 59.97°N, 9.99°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EKriukai — 56.18°N, 23.13°E

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The named rock units Harpides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Harpides and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Harpides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Harpides, 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

23 references

Each of the 36 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. 11 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 content2

Picture of Harpides

Credit
Kozuch
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itHarpididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beyrich 1846