Atopasaphus

No picture of Atopasaphus 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 Atopasaphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 494.2 Mya and 491 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCambrian494–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494.7 Mya490.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Atopasaphus 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

14 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

3 formations

Chatsworth — 22.00°S, 140.30°EChatsworth — 21.94°S, 140.33°EChatsworth Limestone — 22.53°S, 140.28°EGola Beds — 22.51°S, 140.51°E

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The named rock units Atopasaphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Atopasaphus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Atopasaphus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Atopasaphus, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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 Atopasaphus 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 Atopasaphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Atopasaphus 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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shergold 1971