Metaptychopyge truncata

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472.6 Mya468.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Metaptychopyge truncata 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

6 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

1 formation

Toila — 59.44°N, 27.31°E

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The named rock units Metaptychopyge truncata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metaptychopyge truncata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metaptychopyge truncata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Metaptychopyge truncata, 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

Each of the 6 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 Metaptychopyge truncata 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 Metaptychopyge truncata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metaptychopyge truncata 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 itMetaptychopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nieszkowski 1895)