Glaphyraspis

Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius), a relative of Glaphyraspis — not Glaphyraspis itself

Not Glaphyraspis. This is Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius), a relative.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 52 of 52 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 52 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 7 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 7 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 7 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 7 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 5 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–492 Mya — about 1 occurrence492–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–490 Mya — about 1 occurrence490–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505 Mya486.4 Mya

52 occurrences of Glaphyraspis 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

52 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

13 formations

Riley — 30.92°N, 98.61°WRiley — 30.84°N, 98.34°WRiley — 30.91°N, 99.00°WRiley — 30.76°N, 99.41°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.49°N, 98.52°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.37°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 44.28°N, 103.73°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.57°WDeadwood — 44.07°N, 103.22°WDeadwood — 44.22°N, 103.60°WDeadwood — 44.37°N, 103.72°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WRabbitkettle — 63.37°N, 128.60°WGatesburg — 40.76°N, 77.18°WGatesburg — 41.38°N, 75.46°WGatesburg — 41.80°N, 78.68°WZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EPilgrim — 46.01°N, 112.54°WPilgrim — 45.93°N, 111.48°WDry Creek Shale — 42.60°N, 109.20°WConococheague — 39.18°N, 78.15°WDuNoir — 43.29°N, 109.83°WHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WJohns Wash Limestone — 38.52°N, 114.97°WLincoln Peak — 38.87°N, 114.32°WBonneterre — 37.52°N, 90.78°W

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The named rock units Glaphyraspis 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.

Glaphyraspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Glaphyraspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Glaphyraspis, 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

Each of the 52 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

Media content1

Picture of Agriopis marginaria (Fabricius)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1937