Thysanopyge argentina
No picture of Thysanopyge argentina 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 Thysanopyge argentina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThysanopygePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
41 occurrences of Thysanopyge argentina 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
41 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Thysanopyge argentina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Thysanopyge argentina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Thysanopyge argentina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Bienvillia parchaensis6 sites
- Nannopeltis modesta5 sites
- Megalaspis saltaensis4 sites
- Ogygiocaris araiorhachis4 sites
- Hypermecaspis inermis3 sites
- Megalaspidella kayseri3 sites
- Australopyge2 sites
- Kayseraspis asaphelloides2 sites
- Kayseraspis brackebuschi2 sites
- Thysanopyge clavijoi2 sites
- Asaphellus1 site
- Australopyge russoi1 site
- Conophrys minutula1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Didymograptellus nitidus1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Kayseraspis1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
- Niobides armatus1 site
- Orthambonites calligramme1 site
- Pachendoceras1 site
- Peelerophon oehlerti1 site
- Pharostomina trapezoidalis1 site
- Thysanopyge latelimbata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Thysanopyge argentina, 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
2 referencesEach of the 41 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Thysanopyge argentina 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 Thysanopyge argentina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thysanopyge argentina 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 itThysanopyge through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kayser 1898