Metayuepingia riccardii
No picture of Metayuepingia riccardii 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 Metayuepingia riccardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetayuepingiaPBDB
- 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 9.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Metayuepingia riccardii 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Metayuepingia riccardii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Metayuepingia riccardii and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Metayuepingia riccardii and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Apatokephalus rugosus1 site
- Ceratopygidae1 site
- Conophrys1 site
- Gymnagnostus kobayashii1 site
- Hapalopleura1 site
- Kainella teiichii1 site
- Leptoplastides marianus1 site
- Nileus cingolanii1 site
- Niobe (Niobella) inflecta1 site
- Ogygiocaris iruyensis1 site
- Onychopyge acenolazai1 site
- Onychopyge gonzalezae1 site
- Parabolinella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metayuepingia riccardii, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Metayuepingia riccardii 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 Metayuepingia riccardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMetayuepingia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tortello and Esteban 2016