Actinopeltis

No picture of Actinopeltis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Actinopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CheiruridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 33 of 33 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 33 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences468 Mya445.2 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

33 occurrences of Actinopeltis 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

33 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

16 formations

Kraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.04°N, 14.41°ELiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.83°N, 13.83°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELower Ktaoua — 31.00°N, 5.00°WLower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°WLower Ktaoua — 31.15°N, 5.10°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EUpper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°WPizarras Carretera — 39.00°N, 6.00°WPizarras Carretera — 39.00°N, 5.00°WBancos Mixtos — 39.00°N, 4.00°WBancos Mixtos — 38.78°N, 4.83°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EXiliangsi — 33.00°N, 106.00°EKanKing — 41.00°N, 79.00°ECabeco do Peao — 39.00°N, 8.00°WValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WKráluv Dvur — 50.03°N, 14.31°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Actinopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinopeltis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Actinopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

628 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Actinopeltis, 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

19 references

Each of the 33 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Actinopeltis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Actinopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Actinopeltis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)