Kloucekia apiculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KloucekiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.2 Mya and 454 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Kloucekia apiculata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Gelli-grîn Formation · Lower Bala Group3
- Cwm Rhiwarth Formation2
- Dwyfach Formation1
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The named rock units Kloucekia apiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kloucekia apiculata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kloucekia apiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni5 sites
- Brongniartella minor5 sites
- Flexicalymene caractaci5 sites
- Allolichas nodulosus4 sites
- Scopelochasmops cambrensis4 sites
- Broeggerolithus3 sites
- Conolichas3 sites
- Deacybele pauca3 sites
- Flexicalymene planimarginata3 sites
- Howellites3 sites
- Kjaerina3 sites
- Otarion3 sites
- <isotelinid>2 sites
- Bellerophontidae2 sites
- Bicuspina2 sites
- Broeggerolithus broeggeri2 sites
- Brongniartella2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Colaptomena expansa2 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyrtolites2 sites
- Dalmanella horderleyensis2 sites
- Dalmanella indica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kloucekia apiculata, 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
4 references- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales2
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV2
- Mid-Caradoc magmatism in central Llyn, rhyolite petrogenesis, and the evolution of the Snowdonia volcanic corridor in NW Wales1
- The Stratigraphy of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
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. 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 Kloucekia apiculata 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 Kloucekia apiculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kloucekia apiculata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKloucekia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1851)