Pseudoolenoides ludificatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudoolenoidesPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 469.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.8 Mya468.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Pseudoolenoides ludificatus 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

2 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

1 formation

Kanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°W

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

Pseudoolenoides ludificatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudoolenoides ludificatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pseudoolenoides ludificatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 Pseudoolenoides ludificatus 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 Pseudoolenoides ludificatus, 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 itPseudoolenoides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze 1953)