Ovatoryctocara granulata

Ovatoryctocara granulata is a species of corynexochid trilobite from the Cambrian. Its first appearance is one of the proposals for the base of Wuliuan. The species was first formally described by the Russian paleontologist N.Ye. Tchernysheva in 1962.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OvatoryctocaraPBDB
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 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCambrian516–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–506 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya506.5 Mya515.8 Mya496.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Ovatoryctocara granulata 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

16 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

4 formations

Kaili — 26.75°N, 108.41°EHenson Gletscher — 82.15°N, 42.42°WHenson Gletscher — 82.29°N, 39.68°WKuonamka — 66.50°N, 116.00°EKuonamka — 69.66°N, 124.18°EAoxi — 27.63°N, 109.22°E

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

Ovatoryctocara granulata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ovatoryctocara granulata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ovatoryctocara granulata, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 content0

No picture of Ovatoryctocara granulata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovatoryctocara granulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

The description on this site

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chernysheva 1960