Fallotaspis

Fallotaspis is a genus of redlichiid trilobites found in Early Cambrian-aged strata of the United States and Morocco.

Fallotaspis

Sam Gon III · Attribution · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
FallotaspididaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Fallotaspididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 520 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 530.7 Mya to 515.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 21 of 21 occurrencesCambrian531–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya – 520 Mya531.2 Mya514.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Fallotaspis 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

21 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

7 formations

Amouslek — 30.38°N, 8.80°WAmouslek — 29.62°N, 9.47°WIdoudine — 30.40°N, 8.82°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.93°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.96°WCampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.32°EIssafen — 30.27°N, 9.03°WErkhelnur — 51.00°N, 100.00°E

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

Fallotaspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Fallotaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Fallotaspis, 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

11 references

Each of the 21 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 content2

Picture of Fallotaspis

Credit
Sam Gon III
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFallotaspididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hupé 1953