Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini

Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
Placoparia (Coplacoparia)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Placoparia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.6 Mya457.7 Mya

7 occurrences of Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini 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

7 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

6 formations

Pizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WPizarras Guindo — 38.62°N, 3.68°WSchistes de Morgat — 48.25°N, 4.47°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WVillar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°WRio-Schiefer — 39.60°N, 5.24°WSueve Shale — 43.47°N, 5.15°W

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The named rock units Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini, 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 7 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 Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Placoparia (Coplacoparia) tournemini 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 itPlacoparia (Coplacoparia) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rouault 1847)