Mucronaspis olini
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MucronaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 448.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Mucronaspis olini 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
15 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
7 formations
- White Head Formation4
- Cystoid Limestone Formation4
- Zhalair Formation3
- Wenallt Formation1
- Cedarburg Formation · Table Mountain Group1
- Tirekhtyakh Formation1
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The named rock units Mucronaspis olini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mucronaspis olini and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mucronaspis olini and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Brongniartella robusta4 sites
- Aegiromena durbenensis3 sites
- Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus3 sites
- Paromalomena macmahoni3 sites
- Platycoryphe3 sites
- Aphanomena urbicola2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Calymene2 sites
- Cryptolithus2 sites
- Eostropheodonta bublitschenki2 sites
- Eostropheodonta hirnantensis2 sites
- Hirnantia sagittifera2 sites
- Leonaspis olini2 sites
- Persculptograptus persculptus2 sites
- ? Sowerbyellid indet.1 site
- <Lingulid>1 site
- Agnatha1 site
- Ancyrochitina1 site
- Astylospongia praemorsa1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brogniartella sp.1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bucanella1 site
- Caryocaris cedarbergensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mucronaspis olini, 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
10 references- The Upper Ordovician Trilobites from the Cautley and Dent Districts of Westmorland and Yorkshire4
- Nature of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in south Kazakhstan, USSR3
- The regional stratotype section and point for the base of the Hirnantian Stage (the uppermost Ordovician) at Mirny Creek, Omulev Mountains, Northeast Russia1
- Percé, Québec, Canada1
- New evidence on the South African Lower Palaeozoic: age and fossils reviewed1
- Hirnantian fauna in and around Percé, Québec1
- Gaspé Peninsula, Percé area1
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Garth area of southwest Powys, Wales1
- The age, stratigraphy and genesis of the Coniston Limestone Group in the southern Lake District1
- The Hirnantian fauna of the Perce area (Quebec) and the Ordovician-Silurian boundary1
Each of the 15 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. 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.
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No picture of Mucronaspis olini 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 Mucronaspis olini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mucronaspis olini 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 itMucronaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Temple 1952)