Protopliomerops radiatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtopliomeropsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Protopliomerops radiatus 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
3 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
1 formation
- Outram Formation · McKay Group3
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The named rock units Protopliomerops radiatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protopliomerops radiatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Protopliomerops radiatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Kirkella declevita2 sites
- <asaphid>1 site
- <kainellid>1 site
- Acidiphorus1 site
- Ampyx walcotti1 site
- Goniotelina brevis1 site
- Isoteloides saxosimontis1 site
- Lachnostoma1 site
- Lachnostoma latucelsum1 site
- Presbynileus (Presbynileus)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Protopliomerops radiatus, 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- Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta)2
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from the uppermost McKay Group at its type section, southeastern British Columbia1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protopliomerops radiatus 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 Protopliomerops radiatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protopliomerops radiatus 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 itProtopliomerops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1955