Heliomeroides

Heliomeroides is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the upper Ordovician in what is now the United States. It was described by Evitt in 1951, and the type species is Heliomeroides teres. The type locality was the Lincolnshire Formation in Virginia.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 30 of 30 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 30 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–446 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya448.8 Mya484.2 Mya442.3 Mya

30 occurrences of Heliomeroides 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

30 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

14 formations

Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 62.52°N, 124.78°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WTable Cove — 50.36°N, 57.54°WLas Aguaditas — 30.33°S, 68.80°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.42°WValcour — 44.89°N, 73.44°WSunblood — 61.32°N, 125.38°WDounans Limestone — 56.00°N, 4.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WAntelope Valley — 36.39°N, 116.61°WLincolnshire Limestone — 38.97°N, 78.38°WKimmswick limestone — 39.05°N, 90.66°WDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WStinchar Limestone — 55.20°N, 4.75°WKildare Limestone — 53.20°N, 6.92°WKeisley Limestone — 54.61°N, 2.45°W

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The named rock units Heliomeroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliomeroides and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Heliomeroides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Heliomeroides, 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

15 references

Each of the 30 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. 3 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Heliomeroides 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.

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 itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evitt 1951