Palaeoharpes

No picture of Palaeoharpes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeoharpes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HarpetidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
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 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494.2 Mya491 Mya497.5 Mya486.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Palaeoharpes 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

3 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

2 formations

Tangcun — 30.67°N, 118.18°ELangyashan — 32.27°N, 118.25°E

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

Palaeoharpes and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Palaeoharpes and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Palaeoharpes, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Palaeoharpes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Palaeoharpes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itHarpetidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu and Qian 1977