Metopolichas celorrhin

Metopolichas celorrhin

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetopolichasPBDB
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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 16 of 16 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469.9 Mya457.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Metopolichas celorrhin 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

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

3 formations

Holen — 57.37°N, 17.08°EHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EHolen — 57.03°N, 16.88°EHolen — 57.17°N, 16.94°EHolen — 56.62°N, 16.56°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°E

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The named rock units Metopolichas celorrhin has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Metopolichas celorrhin and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Metopolichas celorrhin and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Metopolichas celorrhin, 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

2 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Metopolichas celorrhin

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Metopolichas celorrhin 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)