Ptychoparioidea

Ptychoparioidea is a superfamily of the Ptychopariida order of trilobites.

Ptychoparioidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopariinaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Ptychopariina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 60 of 60 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 60 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 10 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 12 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 5 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 11 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 9 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

60 occurrences of Ptychoparioidea on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

60 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

20 formations

Pioche Shale — 37.89°N, 114.58°WPioche Shale — 37.92°N, 114.45°WPioche Shale — 37.91°N, 114.41°WPioche Shale — 37.76°N, 114.55°WHsuchuang — 34.75°N, 110.62°EHsuchuang — 39.60°N, 107.00°EHsuchuang — 34.63°N, 112.97°EHsuchuang — 34.80°N, 111.90°EHsuchuang — 35.42°N, 114.05°EHsuchuang — 39.22°N, 106.25°ESesong — 37.17°N, 128.78°ESesong — 37.07°N, 129.15°ECarrara — 35.85°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 37.45°N, 115.73°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WKushan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EKushan — 41.23°N, 123.32°EZhangxia — 38.60°N, 113.13°EMount Clark — 64.48°N, 126.79°WMeagher — 45.76°N, 111.73°WArrojos — 30.42°N, 111.93°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.71°WParahio — 32.03°N, 77.90°ELaoyingshan — 32.58°N, 116.85°EShangloucun — 34.12°N, 110.05°EJbel Wawrmast — 31.87°N, 8.17°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 39.67°WHarkless — 37.84°N, 117.79°WMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°WChanghia — 36.30°N, 118.41°EMount Cap — 64.94°N, 127.26°W

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

Ptychoparioidea and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ptychoparioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Ptychoparioidea, 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

24 references

Each of the 60 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ptychoparioidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ptychoparioidea 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1887