Apatokephalops
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RemopleurididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Apatokephalops 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
16 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Apatokephalops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apatokephalops and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apatokephalops and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Asaphellus5 sites
- Loshanella4 sites
- Leiostegium3 sites
- Adelograptus2 sites
- Anisograptus2 sites
- Callograptus2 sites
- Cordylodus2 sites
- Dendrograptus2 sites
- Desmograptus2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Imbricata2 sites
- Jiia2 sites
- Kiaerograptus2 sites
- Nanorthis2 sites
- Obolus2 sites
- Oneotodus2 sites
- Scolopodus2 sites
- Acodus1 site
- Aguloceras sp.1 site
- Apheoorthis1 site
- Asaphidae1 site
- Barnesoceras1 site
- Chosonodina1 site
- Chungkingaspis sinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Apatokephalops, 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
6 references- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China5
- Tremadoc stratigraphy and trilobite faunas of northwestern Hunan. 1: Trilobites from the Nantsinkwan Formation of the Yangtze Platform3
- Regional Stratigraphic Table of North China3
- Regional geology of SanXi Province regional geology2
- Regional stratigraphic table of Northeastern China, JiLin and HeiLongJiang Provinces2
- No.5 The Ordovician System of China1
Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Apatokephalops 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 Apatokephalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apatokephalops 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 itRemopleurididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu 1975