Chariocephalus whitfieldi
No picture of Chariocephalus whitfieldi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chariocephalus whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChariocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Elviniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Chariocephalus whitfieldi 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chariocephalus whitfieldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chariocephalus whitfieldi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Chariocephalus whitfieldi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Prosaukia misa9 sites
- Ptychaspis miniscaensis8 sites
- Ptychaspis5 sites
- Saratogia hamula5 sites
- Ellipsocephaloides3 sites
- Pseudagnostus josephus2 sites
- Wilbernia pero2 sites
- Croixana1 site
- Drumaspis idahoensis1 site
- Ellipsocephaloides silvestris1 site
- Idiomesus1 site
- Keithiella depressa1 site
- Minkella1 site
- Monocheilus1 site
- Pugionicauda1 site
- Stigmaspis1 site
- Triarthropsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Chariocephalus whitfieldi, 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
2 references- Trilobite distribution, upper Franconia Formation (Upper Cambrian), southeastern Minnestoa8
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta1
Each of the 9 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 Chariocephalus whitfieldi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chariocephalus whitfieldi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itChariocephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1863