Metopolichas

Metopolichas

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DicranopeltiniPBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 445.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 67 occurrencesOrdovician — about 67 of 67 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 67 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 5 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 12 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 9 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 10 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 10 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 4 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences477.1 Mya445.5 Mya487.3 Mya442.2 Mya

67 occurrences of Metopolichas 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

67 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

19 formations

Holen — 57.23°N, 16.96°EHolen — 57.37°N, 17.08°EHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EHolen — 57.03°N, 16.88°EHolen — 57.00°N, 16.82°EHolen — 57.17°N, 16.94°EHolen — 56.62°N, 16.56°EVolkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°ELynna — 59.97°N, 32.57°EFfairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WShihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°ETrenice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°ELeemon — 37.25°N, 89.45°WLeemon — 37.24°N, 89.46°WOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°EShihtien — 25.00°N, 99.06°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°ESanqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EShizipu — 27.00°N, 107.00°EXiliangsi — 33.00°N, 106.00°EXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EXilinkebo — 42.00°N, 101.00°EGryazno — 59.66°N, 29.57°ELoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°ELi-Lu — 22.94°N, 97.38°E

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The named rock units Metopolichas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Metopolichas and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metopolichas and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

351 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Metopolichas, 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

17 references

Each of the 67 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. 5 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 Metopolichas

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 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gürich 1901)