Ellipsocephalus gripi
No picture of Ellipsocephalus gripi 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 Ellipsocephalus gripi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllipsocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ellipsocephalus gripi 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
2 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 Ellipsocephalus gripi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ellipsocephalus gripi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ellipsocephalus gripi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Calodiscus lobatus1 site
- Davidonia puppis1 site
- Ellipsostrenua linnarssoni1 site
- Ellipsostrenua sularpensis1 site
- Helcionella antiqua1 site
- Helcionelloida1 site
- Holmia kjerulfi1 site
- Holmia lapponica1 site
- Kjerulfia lata1 site
- Latouchella costata1 site
- Magnicanalis1 site
- Stenotheca norvegica1 site
- Strenuaeva spinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ellipsocephalus gripi, 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
2 references- The shelly fauna and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian (provisional series 2, stage 4) Evjevik Member, Ringstrand Formation in the Mjøsa area, Norway1
- Early Cambrian trilobites from northern Scandinavia1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Ellipsocephalus gripi 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 Ellipsocephalus gripi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ellipsocephalus gripi 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 itEllipsocephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kautsky 1945