Calliops armatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalliopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Calliops armatus 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
1 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 Calliops armatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calliops armatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Calliops armatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acanthodistacodus1 site
- Atelelasma1 site
- Coelochilina1 site
- Complexodus1 site
- Curtognathus1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Egorovella1 site
- Eoplacognathus1 site
- Erismodus1 site
- Erraticodon patu1 site
- Evenkina1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Leperditella1 site
- Multicostella1 site
- Murinella1 site
- Oulodus1 site
- Panderodus1 site
- Parenthatia1 site
- Phragmodus flexuosus1 site
- Platymena amara1 site
- Rafinesquina1 site
- Rostricellula1 site
- Scutumella sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Calliops armatus, 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
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
Media content1
Picture of Calliops armatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calliops armatus 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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What may have been alongside itCalliops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Delo 1940