Achlysopsis brighamensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AchlysopsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 508 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Achlysopsis brighamensis 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Achlysopsis brighamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Achlysopsis brighamensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Achlysopsis brighamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Pentagnostus brighamensis2 sites
- Bathyuriscus wasatchensis1 site
- Chancia maladensis1 site
- Elrathina1 site
- Glossopleura walcotti1 site
- Ogygopsis typicalis1 site
- Olenoides spencei1 site
- Oryctocara geikei1 site
- Oryctocephalites1 site
- Oryctocephalites reynoldsi1 site
- Pagetia aspinosa1 site
- Pentagnostus bonnerensis1 site
- Syspacephalus mccollumorum1 site
- Zacanthoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Achlysopsis brighamensis, 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
3 references- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin2
- Trilobite biostratigraphy of the Cambrian 5 and Drumian stages, Series 3 (Laurentian Delamaran, Topazan, and Marjuman stages, Lincolnian Series) of the lower Emigrant Formation at Clayton Ridge, Esmeralda County, Nevada1
- Biostratigraphy of the Albertella and Glossopleura zones (lower Middle Cambrian) of northern Utah and southern Idaho1
Each of the 4 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 Achlysopsis brighamensis 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 Achlysopsis brighamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Achlysopsis brighamensis 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 itAchlysopsis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Resser 1939)