Dunderbergia polybothra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DunderbergiaPBDB
- 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 3.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 493.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dunderbergia polybothra 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dunderbergia polybothra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dunderbergia polybothra and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dunderbergia polybothra and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Olenus3 sites
- Acrotretida2 sites
- Aphelotoxon acuminata2 sites
- Elburgia granulosa2 sites
- Pseudagnostus communis2 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta1 site
- Aphelotoxon1 site
- Cernuolimbus granulosus1 site
- Cernuolimbus orygmatos1 site
- Cheilocephalus brachyops1 site
- Dunderbergia bigranulosa1 site
- Dytremacephalus asperaxis1 site
- Dytremacephalus granulosus1 site
- Erixanium1 site
- Erixanium carinatum1 site
- Homagnostus1 site
- Homagnostus obesus1 site
- Lingulida1 site
- Litocephalus1 site
- Morosa extensa1 site
- Morosa longispina1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Prehousia diverta1 site
- Pterocephalia concava1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dunderbergia polybothra, 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
3 references- Outer shelf communities and trophic groups in the Upper Cambrian of the Great Basin1
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States1
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Dunderberg Shale, Eureka District, Nevada1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Dunderbergia polybothra 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 polybothra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dunderbergia polybothra 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDunderbergia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1960