Prionocheilus foveolatum
No picture of Prionocheilus foveolatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Prionocheilus foveolatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrionocheilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pharostomatidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 450.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Prionocheilus foveolatum 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
6 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Prionocheilus foveolatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Prionocheilus foveolatum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Prionocheilus foveolatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Hemisphaerocoryphe granulata4 sites
- Parillaenus fallax4 sites
- Platylichas lingua4 sites
- Furudaloceras tomtei3 sites
- Illaenus gigas3 sites
- Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis3 sites
- Sphaerexochus hisingeri3 sites
- Ambonychinia cylindrica2 sites
- Cameroceras2 sites
- Caryocystites lagenalis2 sites
- Ceraurus latifrons2 sites
- Cleionychia primitiva2 sites
- Deacybele gracilis2 sites
- Decoroproetus2 sites
- Decoroproetus solenotus2 sites
- Discoceras amtjaernense2 sites
- Flexicalymene (Onnicalymene) jemtlandica2 sites
- Harpidella2 sites
- Hoeloceras muroni2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Illaenus wimani2 sites
- Isorthoceras2 sites
- Isorthoceras nikwis2 sites
- Isorthoceras sylphide2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Prionocheilus foveolatum, 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
2 references- The Trilobites of the Leptæna Limestone in Dalarne4
- Late Caradoc-early Ashgill trilobites of the central Oslo Region, Norway2
Each of the 6 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 Prionocheilus foveolatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Prionocheilus foveolatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prionocheilus foveolatum 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 itPrionocheilus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Törnquist 1884)