Amecephalus strangulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmecephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Alokistocaridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amecephalus strangulatus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Amecephalus strangulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amecephalus strangulatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Amecephalus strangulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Amecephalus piochensis1 site
- Anomocarella spatha1 site
- Anoria lodensis1 site
- Athabaskia howelli1 site
- Bathyuriscus maximus1 site
- Caborcella trifossatus1 site
- Chancelloria eros1 site
- Corynexochus1 site
- Dictyonina pannula1 site
- Eldoradia linnarssoni1 site
- Glossopleura mohavensis1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Kootenia quadriceps1 site
- Nevadotheca princeps1 site
- Pagetia clytia1 site
- Westonia ella1 site
- Wimanella highlandensis1 site
- Zacanthoides typicalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amecephalus strangulatus, 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
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
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No picture of Amecephalus strangulatus 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 Amecephalus strangulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amecephalus strangulatus 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 itAmecephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mason 1935