Paleomerus

Paleomerus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
StrabopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aglaspidida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Aglaspidida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aglaspidida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Aglaspidida

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521.5 Mya515.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Paleomerus 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

4 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

3 formations

Mickwitzia Sandstone — 58.60°N, 13.35°EMickwitzia Sandstone — 58.62°N, 13.43°EOcieseki Sandstone — 51.00°N, 20.00°EFile Haidar — 58.62°N, 13.77°E

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

Paleomerus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Paleomerus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paleomerus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Paleomerus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Paleomerus 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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stømer 1955