Basilicus

Basilicus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 221 occurrencesOrdovician — about 221 of 221 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 5 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 5 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 6 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 6 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 6 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 5 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 4 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 6 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 8 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 8 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 8 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 29 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 43 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 24 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 4 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya452.3 Mya487.7 Mya444.4 Mya

221 occurrences of Basilicus 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

221 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

68 formations

Ffairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFlags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 65.54°WSanta Rosita — 23.74°S, 65.55°WSanta Rosita — 24.49°S, 65.55°WSanta Rosita — 24.50°S, 65.75°WSanta Rosita — 22.21°S, 64.89°WSanta Rosita — 22.51°S, 65.10°WMachiakou — 41.84°N, 126.81°EMachiakou — 41.75°N, 126.29°EMachiakou — 41.46°N, 124.00°EMachiakou — 40.99°N, 117.82°EMachiakou — 37.12°N, 113.62°EMachiakou — 34.01°N, 116.87°EMachiakou — 33.73°N, 116.89°EMachiakou — 33.52°N, 117.35°EMachiakou — 35.16°N, 117.32°EFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.44°WUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 30.00°N, 5.50°WUpper Fezouata — 30.55°N, 5.68°WUpper Fezouata — 30.10°N, 5.80°WFfairfach Conglomerates — 52.00°N, 4.00°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WBeianzhuang — 41.84°N, 126.81°EBeianzhuang — 40.99°N, 117.82°EBeianzhuang — 33.52°N, 117.35°EBeianzhuang — 35.16°N, 117.32°EDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WValcour — 44.61°N, 73.41°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WLandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EChikunsan — 41.38°N, 128.17°EFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°WGunningbland — 33.13°S, 147.92°EStairway — 24.14°S, 132.27°EStairway — 24.43°S, 132.17°EBaota — 27.00°N, 101.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EYinzhupu — 29.00°N, 115.00°EYinzhupu — 30.00°N, 120.00°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WCapillas — 24.00°S, 65.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Basilicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Basilicus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Basilicus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

823 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 213 sites for Basilicus, 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

56 references

Each of the 221 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. 44 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 content1

Picture of Basilicus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Basilicus 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. (Salter 1849)