Catillicephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatillicephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
17 occurrences of Catillicephala 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
17 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
- Holm Dal Formation · Tavsens Iskappe Group11
- Skeels Corner Slate Formation3
- Grosses-Roches Formation2
- St. Albans Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Catillicephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catillicephala and its relatives
CambrianWhere Catillicephala and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Modocia12 sites
- Hemirhodon11 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus11 sites
- Onchonotopsis10 sites
- Marjumia9 sites
- Pearylandia9 sites
- Bynumia8 sites
- Cedaria8 sites
- Conopolus granulus8 sites
- Elrathia7 sites
- Proagnostus bulbus7 sites
- Dorispira holmdalense6 sites
- Olenoides6 sites
- Stenothecoides groenlandica6 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta6 sites
- Bolaspidella stymacantha5 sites
- Oidalagnostus trispinifer5 sites
- Peronopsis5 sites
- Tavsenia5 sites
- Balderia4 sites
- Crepicephalus4 sites
- Cryptoderaspis metisensis4 sites
- Durinia4 sites
- Exigua4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Catillicephala, 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
4 references- Molluscs of the Holm Dal Formation (late Middle Cambrian), central North Greenland11
- Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. X. Fossils from the (Cambrian) Skeels Corners Formation3
- Early Upper Cambrian Trilobites from Western Gaspé2
- Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. XI Fossils from the Middle Cambrian St. Albans Shale1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Catillicephala 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 Catillicephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Catillicephala 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 itCatillicephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Raymond 1937