Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemisphaerocoryphePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hemisphaerocoryphe
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Asaphidae1 site
- Eoharpes yijianfangensis1 site
- Illaenus cekovioides1 site
- Illaenus sinensis1 site
- Illaenus tianrongi1 site
- Ischyrotoma1 site
- Kawina1 site
- Kawina sinica1 site
- Liomegalaspides major1 site
- Lyralichas qiaoi1 site
- Mioptychopyge trinodosa1 site
- Nanillaenus crassus1 site
- Nileus walcotti1 site
- Panderia1 site
- Parillaenus vetus1 site
- Promago1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Sthenarocalymene1 site
- Tairongia bachuensis1 site
- Yanhaoia huayinshanensis1 site
- Zhenganites xinjiangensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China1
- Ordovician trilobites from the Dawangou Formation, Kalpin, Xinjiang, north-west China1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemisphaerocoryphe elliptica 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 itHemisphaerocoryphe through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lu 1975)