Olenelloidea

The Olenelloidea are a superfamily of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods. They lived during the late Lower Cambrian and species occurred on all paleocontinents.

Olenelloidea

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlenellinaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 843 of 843 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 843 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 2 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 5 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 5 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 5 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 5 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 5 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 5 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 5 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 5 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 5 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 11 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 60 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 61 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 109 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 188 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 188 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 143 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 16 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 10 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 3 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 1 occurrence502–500 Mya — about 1 occurrence500–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–495 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

843 occurrences of Olenelloidea on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

843 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

60 formations

Carrara — 35.85°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 37.35°N, 116.13°WCarrara — 37.45°N, 115.73°WCarrara — 36.67°N, 116.32°WCarrara — 36.75°N, 117.07°WCarrara — 36.47°N, 116.75°WCarrara — 36.48°N, 116.73°WCarrara — 36.38°N, 116.60°WCarrara — 36.20°N, 116.35°WCarrara — 36.08°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 36.15°N, 116.97°WCarrara — 36.23°N, 116.98°WCarrara — 36.43°N, 116.98°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.16°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.06°WCarrara — 35.95°N, 116.31°WCampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WCampito — 37.53°N, 117.53°WCampito — 37.72°N, 117.32°WCampito — 37.47°N, 117.45°WCampito — 38.02°N, 118.18°WCampito — 37.86°N, 117.87°WCampito — 37.02°N, 117.96°WSekwi — 63.52°N, 128.68°WSekwi — 63.52°N, 128.17°WSekwi — 63.58°N, 129.20°WSekwi — 63.37°N, 129.13°WSekwi — 63.62°N, 128.63°WSekwi — 63.44°N, 129.37°WSekwi — 63.33°N, 130.48°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.41°WKinzers — 40.00°N, 76.73°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 39.98°N, 76.76°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.33°WPioche — 36.19°N, 115.01°WPioche — 37.80°N, 114.57°WPioche — 40.64°N, 111.69°WPioche Shale — 36.19°N, 115.01°WPioche Shale — 37.77°N, 114.56°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.53°N, 114.73°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°WPioche Shale — 37.62°N, 114.72°WPioche Shale — 37.94°N, 114.50°WPoleta — 37.79°N, 117.27°WPoleta — 37.87°N, 117.87°WPoleta — 37.32°N, 117.27°WPoleta — 37.72°N, 117.32°WPoleta — 37.38°N, 117.29°WPoleta — 37.81°N, 117.76°WPoleta — 37.49°N, 117.34°WPoleta — 37.50°N, 117.50°WPoleta — 37.85°N, 117.82°WPoleta — 37.27°N, 118.09°WForteau — 51.56°N, 56.75°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.71°WForteau — 51.46°N, 56.86°WForteau — 51.02°N, 57.00°WForteau — 50.59°N, 57.22°WForteau — 51.02°N, 56.81°WForteau — 50.61°N, 57.14°WForteau — 51.02°N, 56.61°WForteau — 51.07°N, 56.69°WForteau — 50.97°N, 56.44°WForteau — 50.98°N, 56.32°WForteau — 51.53°N, 56.82°WForteau — 51.47°N, 56.97°WForteau — 50.66°N, 57.04°WForteau — 50.65°N, 57.05°WLatham — 34.54°N, 115.48°WLatham — 34.58°N, 115.52°WLatham — 34.95°N, 115.58°WLatham — 35.00°N, 115.53°WMural — 53.03°N, 119.23°WMural — 53.19°N, 119.16°WMural — 53.18°N, 119.13°WHarkless — 37.52°N, 117.53°WHarkless — 37.36°N, 117.36°WHarkless — 37.32°N, 117.77°WHarkless — 37.78°N, 117.75°WHarkless — 37.87°N, 117.86°WHarkless — 37.87°N, 117.84°WHarkless — 37.70°N, 117.47°WHarkless — 37.40°N, 117.28°WIlltyd — 65.09°N, 134.71°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WParker Slate — 44.74°N, 73.16°WHenson Gletscher — 82.00°N, 42.00°WHenson Gletscher — 82.15°N, 42.42°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 39.67°WHenson Gletscher — 82.29°N, 39.68°WBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 73.52°N, 24.68°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WStissing — 42.41°N, 73.53°WStissing — 43.17°N, 73.32°WOcieseki Sandstone — 51.00°N, 20.00°EOcieseki Sandstone — 50.75°N, 20.97°EBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WBrowns Pond — 43.60°N, 73.32°WJbel Wawrmast — 31.39°N, 5.02°WJbel Wawrmast — 31.29°N, 5.50°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.93°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.96°WBuelna — 30.42°N, 111.93°WBuelna — 29.28°N, 110.58°WRingstrand — 60.90°N, 10.73°ERingstrand — 60.95°N, 10.78°EMule Spring Limestone — 37.71°N, 117.45°WMule Spring Limestone — 37.32°N, 117.77°WMount Clark — 64.94°N, 127.26°WMount Clark — 64.48°N, 126.79°W

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The named rock units Olenelloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olenelloidea and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Olenelloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 309 sites for Olenelloidea, and this reads 240 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

101 references

Each of the 843 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. 89 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 Olenelloidea

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOlenellina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1890