Dunderbergia
No picture of Dunderbergia 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 Dunderbergia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElviniidaePBDB
- 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.
74 occurrences of Dunderbergia 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
74 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
15 formations
- Orr Formation15
- Nopah Formation13
- Riley Formation10
- Dunderberg Shale Formation9
- Lincoln Peak Formation4
- Johns Wash Limestone Formation3
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The named rock units Dunderbergia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dunderbergia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dunderbergia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Pseudagnostus communis11 sites
- Sigmocheilus8 sites
- Homagnostus7 sites
- Olenus7 sites
- Angulotreta triangularis6 sites
- Aphelaspis walcotti6 sites
- Pterocephalia6 sites
- Acrotretida5 sites
- Cheilocephalus brevilobus5 sites
- Dytremacephalus granulosus5 sites
- Elvinia roemeri5 sites
- Erixanium5 sites
- Aphelotoxon4 sites
- Cernuolimbus orygmatos4 sites
- Cheilocephalus4 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops4 sites
- Erixanium multisegmentus4 sites
- Homagnostus obesus4 sites
- Labiostria conveximarginata4 sites
- Strigambitus utahensis4 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta3 sites
- Aphelotoxon acuminata3 sites
- Apsotreta expansa3 sites
- Cernuolimbus granulosus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Dunderbergia, 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
13 references- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States25
- Upper Cambrian Orr Formation: Its Subdivisions and Correlatives in Western Utah13
- The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas10
- Outer shelf communities and trophic groups in the Upper Cambrian of the Great Basin7
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Dunderberg Shale, Eureka District, Nevada6
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada2
- Cambrian trilobites of East-Central Alaska2
- Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California2
- Upper Cambrian trilobite faunas of Northeastern Tennessee2
- Dresbachian and Franconian trilobites of the Conococheague and Frederick Limestones of the central Appalachians2
- Evenness, richness and the Cambrian-Paleozoic faunal transition in North America: an assemblage-level perspective1
- Paleontology of northwestern Vermont. XV. trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Gorge Formation (Lower Part of Bed 3)1
Each of the 74 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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
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No picture of Dunderbergia 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 Dunderbergia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dunderbergia 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 itElviniidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1924