Oryctocephalinae

Oryctocephalinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OryctocephalidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Oryctocephalidae
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 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 228 of 228 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 228 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–513 Mya — about 5 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 5 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 16 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 51 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 79 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 49 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 5 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 4 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 4 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–495 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 occurrences509.7 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

228 occurrences of Oryctocephalinae 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

228 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

37 formations

Emigrant — 37.72°N, 117.44°WEmigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WEmigrant — 37.63°N, 117.25°WEmigrant — 37.55°N, 117.28°WEmigrant — 37.35°N, 117.83°WEmigrant — 37.79°N, 117.44°WKaili — 27.00°N, 107.00°EKaili — 26.75°N, 108.41°EKaili — 26.40°N, 107.88°EPioche Shale — 37.53°N, 114.73°WPioche Shale — 37.89°N, 114.61°WPioche Shale — 37.94°N, 114.50°WPioche Shale — 37.91°N, 114.41°WPioche Shale — 37.76°N, 114.55°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.62°N, 114.72°WTrailer — 39.88°N, 113.05°WKuonamka — 68.50°N, 112.43°EKuonamka — 69.66°N, 124.18°EMonola — 37.01°N, 117.79°WMonola — 37.08°N, 117.86°WMonola — 36.94°N, 117.91°WMonola — 37.11°N, 118.18°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WPole Canyon — 38.83°N, 114.33°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WCarrara — 39.16°N, 119.83°WCarrara — 37.35°N, 116.13°WCarrara — 37.45°N, 115.73°WCarrara — 37.57°N, 115.76°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WParahio — 32.02°N, 77.93°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.30°WMt. Whyte — 51.50°N, 116.50°WMt. Whyte — 51.42°N, 116.45°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WSwasey Limestone — 39.54°N, 112.92°WCoonigan — 31.17°S, 141.32°EEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°WEl Gavilán — 28.92°N, 109.29°WLincoln Peak — 38.83°N, 114.33°WAlojamiento — 32.22°S, 69.08°WAlojamiento — 32.07°S, 69.08°WSan Isidro — 32.86°S, 69.00°WMount Whyte — 52.83°N, 119.25°W

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The named rock units Oryctocephalinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oryctocephalinae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Oryctocephalinae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Oryctocephalinae, 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

54 references

Each of the 228 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. 42 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 Oryctocephalinae

Credit
TheoricienQuantique
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oryctocephalinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOryctocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beecher 1897