Actinopeltis
Searched as Actinopeltis barrandei. The Paleobiology Database treats Actinopeltis as the accepted name.
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 most 4.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
1 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
1 formation
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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.
Actinopeltis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Actinopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
628 taxa- Stenopareia12 sites
- Prionocheilus11 sites
- Cekovia10 sites
- Calymenella9 sites
- Eudolatites9 sites
- Dalmanitina8 sites
- Hastatellina hastata8 sites
- Mucronaspis8 sites
- Nobiliasaphus8 sites
- Sinuitopsis neglecta8 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi7 sites
- Mespilocystites7 sites
- Onnia7 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica6 sites
- Echinosphaerites6 sites
- Hyolithes6 sites
- Kloucekia6 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra6 sites
- Rhombifera bohemica6 sites
- Selenopeltis6 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi6 sites
- Aegiria5 sites
- Aegiromena aquila5 sites
- Archaeoconularia insignis5 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)