Dolicholeptus ansatus

No picture of Dolicholeptus ansatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dolicholeptus ansatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DolicholeptusPBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 1.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 500.5 Mya and 499 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCambrian501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501 Mya498.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Dolicholeptus ansatus 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

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

Tasman — 41.00°S, 173.00°E

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The named rock units Dolicholeptus ansatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dolicholeptus ansatus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dolicholeptus ansatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dolicholeptus ansatus, 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

1 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Dolicholeptus ansatus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Dolicholeptus ansatus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Dolicholeptus ansatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Opik 1982