Crotalocephalus pauper
Termier, H. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- CrotalocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Crotalocephalus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 31 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Crotalocephalus pauper on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Crotalocephalus pauper has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crotalocephalus pauper and its relatives
DevonianWhere Crotalocephalus pauper and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Crotalocephalina gibbus6 sites
- Boeckops boecki5 sites
- Cyphaspis convexum5 sites
- Dicranurus monstrosus5 sites
- Leonaspis5 sites
- Reedops sternbergi5 sites
- Zlichovaspis (Zlichovaspis) rugosa5 sites
- Acanthopyge (Perunaspis) minuta4 sites
- Ceratonurus4 sites
- Nowakia4 sites
- Poroscutellum4 sites
- Reedops bronni4 sites
- Reedops cephalotes4 sites
- Reedops prospicens4 sites
- Tropidocoryphe4 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Crotalocephalina globifrons3 sites
- Cyphaspides3 sites
- Dalejeproetus dalejensis3 sites
- Kainops veles3 sites
- Lepidoproetus lepidus3 sites
- Odontochile cristata3 sites
- Odontochile hausmanni3 sites
- Ostracoda3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Crotalocephalus pauper, 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- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments3
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
- Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia1
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter-und Mittel-devons IV1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Crotalocephalus pauper
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Termier, H.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCrotalocephalus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1852)