Pseudosphaerexochus conformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudosphaerexochusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pseudosphaerexochus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Pseudosphaerexochus conformis 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
12 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
5 formations
- Kildare Limestone Formation6
- Boda Limestone Formation3
- Ärina Formation1
- Korgessaare Formation · Lyckholm Group1
- Keisley Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudosphaerexochus conformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudosphaerexochus conformis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pseudosphaerexochus conformis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
337 taxa- Sphaerexochus calvus8 sites
- Holotrachelus punctillosus5 sites
- Cyphoniscus socialis4 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe punctata4 sites
- Amphilichas dalecarlicus3 sites
- Illaenus (Parillaenus) roemeri3 sites
- Isocolus sjogreni3 sites
- Pharostoma leptaenarum3 sites
- Stenoblepharum warburgae3 sites
- Tornquistia3 sites
- Ambonychinia corrugata2 sites
- Amphilichas lineatus2 sites
- Amphilichas wahlenbergi2 sites
- Apianurus clevei2 sites
- Atractopyge verrucosa2 sites
- Ceraurinella intermedia2 sites
- Cornucrinus mirus2 sites
- Cryptothyrella terebratulina2 sites
- Cyphaspis2 sites
- Decoroproetus asellus2 sites
- Encrinurus striatus2 sites
- Eobronteus laticauda2 sites
- Glaphurella2 sites
- Hadromeros clasonii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pseudosphaerexochus conformis, 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
3 references- The Trilobites of the Chair of Kildare Limestone (Upper Ordovician) of Eastern Ireland. Part I.6
- The Trilobites of the Leptæna Limestone in Dalarne4
- Revision der ostbaltischen silurischen Trilobiten. Abtheilung I: Phacopiden, Cheiruriden und Encrinuriden2
Each of the 12 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.
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No picture of Pseudosphaerexochus conformis 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 Pseudosphaerexochus conformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudosphaerexochus conformis 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 itPseudosphaerexochus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)