Kainops microps

Kainops microps

Kubajko · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
KainopsPBDB
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 most 2.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

6 occurrences of Kainops microps 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

6 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

1 formation

Garra — 32.58°S, 148.95°E

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

Kainops microps and its relatives

Devonian

Where Kainops microps and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kainops microps, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Kainops microps

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kubajko
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

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

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chatterton et al. 1979)