Olenoides

Olenoides is a genus of trilobite from the Cambrian period. Its fossils can be found with soft body parts intact in the Burgess Shale in Canada. Fossils of this genus can also be found in the Wheeler Shale and Marjum Formation of Utah in the United States of America, among other localities. Species within this genus range in size, with most being medium-sized trilobites. Specimens of Olenoides superbus, pictured on the right, an especially large species, can reach sizes of well over 10 centimeters in length. Olenoides is part of the order Corynexochida, which is among the most ancient trilobite orders.

Olenoides

Daderot · CC0 · 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
DorypygidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dorypygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 148 of 148 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 148 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 3 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 4 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 4 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 4 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 7 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 11 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 13 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 23 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 24 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 10 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 8 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 6 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 6 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 7 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya497 Mya516.6 Mya486.3 Mya

148 occurrences of Olenoides 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

148 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

41 formations

Kaili — 26.73°N, 108.42°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.39°N, 116.43°WPioche Shale — 37.92°N, 114.45°WPioche Shale — 37.52°N, 114.79°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°WHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WMarjum — 39.23°N, 112.33°WMarjum — 39.38°N, 113.28°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WPleasant Hill Limestone — 40.26°N, 78.30°WPleasant Hill Limestone — 40.00°N, 78.00°WPleasant Hill Limestone — 40.48°N, 75.05°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.30°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 111.59°WWheeler Shale — 39.20°N, 113.30°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.91°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.90°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WKap Stanton — 80.25°N, 62.50°WPulgon — 40.38°N, 73.34°EDuchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WAthei — 49.24°N, 78.59°EUte — 41.57°N, 112.05°WPika — 52.45°N, 116.72°WSchodack — 42.53°N, 73.69°WHatch Hill — 42.31°N, 73.77°WMarjum Limestone — 38.88°N, 113.44°WPark Shale — 43.28°N, 109.83°WChingiz — 50.08°N, 72.92°E

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The named rock units Olenoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olenoides and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Olenoides and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

709 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Olenoides, 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

51 references

Each of the 148 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. 39 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 Olenoides

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Daderot
Licence
CC0
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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Meek 1877