Hexacopyge
No picture of Hexacopyge 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 Hexacopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RemopleurididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
16 occurrences of Hexacopyge 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
16 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Hexacopyge has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hexacopyge and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hexacopyge and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Hanchungolithinae9 sites
- Ningkianites5 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca4 sites
- Metagnostidae4 sites
- Ningkianolithus4 sites
- Opsimasaphus4 sites
- Ovalocephalus4 sites
- Rhombampyx yii4 sites
- Agerina elongata3 sites
- Geragnostus3 sites
- Gog yangtzeensis3 sites
- Liomegalaspides3 sites
- Raphiophorinae3 sites
- Vietnamia3 sites
- Vietnamia yushanensis3 sites
- Agerina2 sites
- Asaphidae2 sites
- Geragnostus (Geragnostus)2 sites
- Liomegalaspides blackwelderi2 sites
- Megalaspides2 sites
- Mioptychopyge suni2 sites
- Neseuretus shensiensis2 sites
- Nileus2 sites
- Nileus walcotti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Hexacopyge, 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
3 references- Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate12
- Late Ordovician Trilobites from the Xiazhen Formation in Zhuzhai, Jiangxi Province, China3
- Arenig trilobite associations and faunal changes in Southern Shaanxi, China1
Each of the 16 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 Hexacopyge 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 Hexacopyge, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hexacopyge 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRemopleurididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yuan and Zhou