Pandaspinapyga
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthoparyphinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
12 occurrences of Pandaspinapyga on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Esbataottine Formation6
- Bromide Formation1
- Sunblood Formation1
- Mingan Formation1
- Bønsnes Formation1
- Balclatchie Formation · Ardmillan Group1
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The named rock units Pandaspinapyga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pandaspinapyga and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pandaspinapyga and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
158 taxa- Dolichoharpes reticulata7 sites
- Calyptaulax6 sites
- Ceratocephala triacantheis6 sites
- Chaulistomella6 sites
- Holia glabra6 sites
- Tetradella6 sites
- Walencrinuroides rolfi6 sites
- Amphilichas5 sites
- Ceraurinella5 sites
- Dimeropyge speyeri5 sites
- Heliomeroides teres5 sites
- Krausella5 sites
- Onychoplesia sp.5 sites
- Sphaerexochus5 sites
- Acanthoparypha4 sites
- Aparchites4 sites
- Bairdiocypris4 sites
- Bolbopisthia4 sites
- Cybeloides prima4 sites
- Eurychilina4 sites
- Mimella globosa4 sites
- Phorocephala4 sites
- Schmidtella4 sites
- Acanthoparypha evitti3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pandaspinapyga, 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
7 references- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie3
- Ordovician formations and faunas, southern Mackenzie Mountains3
- Silicified Middle Ordovician trilobites from the South Nahanni River Area, District of Mackenzie, Canada2
- Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec1
- Biostratigraphic and paleontological studies1
- The Ashgill Trilobites of the Oslo Region, Norway1
- Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland1
Each of the 12 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 Pandaspinapyga 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 Pandaspinapyga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pandaspinapyga 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 itAcanthoparyphinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Esker and Levin 1964