Hemiarges
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochurinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 36 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
86 occurrences of Hemiarges 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
86 occurrences- Ordovician74%
- Silurian26%
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
35 formations
- Whittaker Formation13
- Esbataottine Formation7
- Mulloch Hill Formation6
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group5
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group4
- Motol Formation4
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The named rock units Hemiarges has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemiarges and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hemiarges and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
877 taxa- Calyptaulax22 sites
- Sphaerexochus20 sites
- Amphilichas19 sites
- Remopleurides19 sites
- Isotelus18 sites
- Krausella18 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe17 sites
- Dimeropyge15 sites
- Tetradella15 sites
- Encrinuroides14 sites
- Ceraurinella13 sites
- Lonchodomas13 sites
- Hypodicranotus12 sites
- Illaenus12 sites
- Otarion12 sites
- Bumastoides11 sites
- Chasmops11 sites
- Ampyx10 sites
- Bolbopisthia10 sites
- Ceraurus10 sites
- Cybeloides10 sites
- Cybeloides cimelia10 sites
- Dicranella10 sites
- Strophomena10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Hemiarges, 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
37 references- Scottish Silurian trilobites10
- The Ordovician trilobite genus Hemiarges (Lichidae: Trochurinae) from North American and Greenland7
- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie7
- Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland6
- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains6
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada4
- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)3
- The age, stratigraphy and genesis of the Coniston Limestone Group in the southern Lake District3
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario3
- Trilobites from the Upper Stinchar Limestone (Ordovician) of the Girvan District, Ayrshire3
- The uppermost Ordovician (Hirnantian) trilobites of Girvan, SW Scotland with a review of coeval trilobite faunas2
- Silicified Lichidae (Trilobita) from the Middle Ordovician of Virginia2
Each of the 86 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. 25 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 content1
Picture of Hemiarges
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hemiarges was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrochurinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gürich 1901