Olenellus roddyi

Olenellus roddyi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlenellusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenellidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 10 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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27 occurrences of Olenellus roddyi 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

27 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

1 formation

Kinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.00°N, 76.73°WKinzers — 39.98°N, 76.76°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.33°WKinzers — 40.07°N, 76.37°W

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

Olenellus roddyi and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Olenellus roddyi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Olenellus roddyi, 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 27 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Olenellus roddyi

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Olenellus roddyi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itOlenellus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser and Howell 1938