Prionocheilus obtusus

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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 least 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451.8 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 14 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451.8 Mya448.8 Mya453.3 Mya442.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Prionocheilus obtusus 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

14 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

5 formations

Solvang — 60.13°N, 10.28°ESolvang — 59.86°N, 10.52°ESolvang — 60.05°N, 10.18°EKildare Limestone — 53.20°N, 6.92°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WNakkholmen — 59.84°N, 10.54°ESort Tepe — 37.28°N, 43.54°ESort Tepe — 37.28°N, 43.56°E

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

Prionocheilus obtusus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Prionocheilus obtusus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Prionocheilus obtusus, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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

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No picture of Prionocheilus obtusus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (McCoy 1846)