Dellea planafrons

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- DelleaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dokimokephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dellea planafrons 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dellea planafrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dellea planafrons and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dellea planafrons and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Apachia genaitholix1 site
- Aphelotoxon lumaleasa1 site
- Buttsia drabensis1 site
- Bynumina terrenda1 site
- Cheilocephalus brachyops1 site
- Cliffia lataegenae1 site
- Cliffia magnacilis1 site
- Dellea suada1 site
- Drabia typica1 site
- Elvinia roemeri1 site
- Housia vacuna1 site
- Irvingella major1 site
- Jessievillia radiatus1 site
- Kindbladia wichitaensis1 site
- Kymagnostus harti1 site
- Morosa bothra1 site
- Neoagnostus dilatus1 site
- Olenus1 site
- Pseudokingstonia exotica1 site
- Pseudosaratogia lata1 site
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae1 site
- Pulchricapitus fetosus1 site
- Xenocheilos minutum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dellea planafrons, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dellea planafrons
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dellea planafrons was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDellea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hohensee and Stitt 1989