Psalikilus typicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsalikilusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hystricuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 481.7 Mya and 475.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Psalikilus typicum 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
13 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Psalikilus typicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psalikilus typicum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Psalikilus typicum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Menoparia genalunata6 sites
- Protopliomerella contracta6 sites
- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparia) venta4 sites
- Asaphellus2 sites
- Aulacoparia2 sites
- Basilicus2 sites
- Endoceras2 sites
- Licnocephala2 sites
- Licnocephala bicornuta2 sites
- Protopliomerops2 sites
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Benthamaspis conica1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Gladiatoria gladiator1 site
- Gladiatoria reedi1 site
- Jeffersonia1 site
- Licnocephala cavigladius1 site
- Nanorthis1 site
- Protopliomerella1 site
- Protopliomerops quattuor1 site
- Rasettia1 site
- Scinocephalus solitecti1 site
- Syntrophina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Psalikilus typicum, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas6
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea5
- Trilobite biostratigraphy and revised bases of the Tulean and Blackhillsian Stages of the Ibexian Series, Lower Ordovician, western United States1
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah1
Each of the 13 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
Media content0
No picture of Psalikilus typicum 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 Psalikilus typicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psalikilus typicum 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 itPsalikilus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1951