Psilonychia

No picture of Psilonychia 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 Psilonychia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmbonychiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 457.2 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 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.7 Mya456.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Psilonychia 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

2 formations

Pen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°W

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

Psilonychia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Psilonychia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Psilonychia, 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

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 Psilonychia 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 Psilonychia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Psilonychia 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 itAmbonychiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893