Bolbocephalus stitti
No picture of Bolbocephalus stitti 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 Bolbocephalus stitti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolbocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Bolbocephalus stitti 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
17 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 Bolbocephalus stitti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bolbocephalus stitti and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bolbocephalus stitti and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Strigigenalis crassimarginata4 sites
- Stromatolite indet.4 sites
- Benthamaspis onomeris3 sites
- Strigigenalis insentis3 sites
- Dimeropygiella2 sites
- Jeffersonia jenni2 sites
- Petigurus cullisoni2 sites
- Strigigenalis2 sites
- <nautiloid>1 site
- Ischyrotoma1 site
- Isoteloides peri1 site
- Jeffersonia1 site
- Punka verecunda1 site
- Randaynia leatherburyi1 site
- Strigigenalis caudata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Bolbocephalus stitti, 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 17 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 Bolbocephalus stitti 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 Bolbocephalus stitti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bolbocephalus stitti 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 itBolbocephalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loch 2007