Geesops

Geesops is an extinct genus of trilobites in the family Phacopidae. There are about five described species in Geesops.

No picture of Geesops 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 Geesops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacopinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 385.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya387.95 Mya400 Mya385.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Geesops on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

19 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

12 formations

Chefar el Ahmar — 29.56°N, 2.15°WAhrdorf — 50.22°N, 6.70°EJemelle — 50.16°N, 5.26°EJemelle — 50.26°N, 5.47°ESelscheid — 51.03°N, 7.55°EBergfeld — 51.28°N, 7.68°EFreilingen — 50.25°N, 6.67°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.88°EJemelle — 50.09°N, 4.70°EOhle — 51.29°N, 8.04°EHarbecke — 51.15°N, 8.56°EMeinkenbracht — 51.28°N, 8.08°EHobracke — 51.23°N, 7.82°E

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

Geesops and its relatives

Devonian

Where Geesops and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Geesops, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Geesops 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 Geesops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPhacopinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Struve 1972