Cyphaspis hydrocephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyphaspisPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- 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.
6 occurrences of Cyphaspis hydrocephala 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cyphaspis hydrocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyphaspis hydrocephala and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyphaspis hydrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
283 taxa- Crinoidea3 sites
- Cyphaspis convexum3 sites
- Koneprusia3 sites
- Acanthopyge2 sites
- Aesopomum2 sites
- Areostrophia2 sites
- Astycoryphe astyx2 sites
- Astycoryphe gracilis2 sites
- Biconostrophia2 sites
- Boeckops delphinoides2 sites
- Bohemiproetus bohemicus2 sites
- Bojodouvillina2 sites
- Bojoscutellum2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Buchiproetus calypso2 sites
- Caplinoplia2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Coniproetus exspectatus2 sites
- Coniproetus gagis2 sites
- Crotalocephalus2 sites
- Dalejina2 sites
- Denemarkia frontalis2 sites
- Devonoproetus ginsen2 sites
- Eodrevermannia sirax2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cyphaspis hydrocephala, 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
2 references- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments4
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Cyphaspis hydrocephala 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 Cyphaspis hydrocephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyphaspis hydrocephala 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 itCyphaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1843)