Metopolichas verrucosus

Metopolichas verrucosus

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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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–465 Mya — about 1 occurrence465–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464.3 Mya452.8 Mya469.9 Mya444.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Metopolichas verrucosus 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

8 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

5 formations

Holen — 57.23°N, 16.96°EHolen — 57.03°N, 16.88°EHolen — 57.29°N, 16.96°EHolen — 57.10°N, 16.93°ELoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°ELi-Lu — 22.94°N, 97.38°EShihtien — 25.00°N, 99.06°E

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

Metopolichas verrucosus and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Metopolichas verrucosus, 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

Each of the 8 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 verrucosus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Metopolichas verrucosus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (Eichwald 1842)