Olenus

Olenus is a genus of Upper Cambrian ptychopariid trilobite.

Olenus

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
OlenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 494.2 Mya to 491 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 65 of 65 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 65 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 7 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 32 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 18 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence494.2 Mya – 491 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

65 occurrences of Olenus 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

65 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

18 formations

Alum Shale — 58.58°N, 13.38°EAlum Shale — 58.55°N, 13.33°EAlum Shale — 56.35°N, 16.42°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°ENopah — 40.00°N, 115.00°WNopah — 39.00°N, 116.00°WTybo Shale — 38.00°N, 116.00°WDunderberg — 37.15°N, 116.00°WWindfall — 39.45°N, 115.97°WSiyangshan — 28.90°N, 118.50°EWoods Hollow Boulders — 30.20°N, 103.24°WOrr — 36.17°N, 115.14°WMachari — 37.18°N, 128.48°EModder River Siltstone — 42.42°S, 145.35°EWisniowka Sandstone — 50.85°N, 20.92°EDunderberg Shale — 39.97°N, 114.88°WCollier Shale — 34.73°N, 93.01°WAlum Shale — 60.78°N, 10.82°EDeymenskaya, Veselovskaya, Ladushkinskaya — 54.67°N, 21.28°EMaentwrog — 52.93°N, 3.94°W

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The named rock units Olenus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Olenus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Olenus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Olenus, 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

22 references

Each of the 65 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. 10 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 Olenus

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 itOlenidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)