Nasocephalus nasutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NasocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Marjumiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nasocephalus nasutus 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nasocephalus nasutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nasocephalus nasutus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Nasocephalus nasutus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Blountia2 sites
- Cedaria2 sites
- Kormagnostus2 sites
- Opisthotreta2 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Blountiella1 site
- Cedaria prolifica1 site
- Cedaria puelchana1 site
- Coosella texana1 site
- Coosia conicephala1 site
- Coosia pernamagna1 site
- Homagnostus1 site
- Meteoraspis metra1 site
- Olenoides proa1 site
- Pseudagnostus1 site
- Tricrepicephalus texanus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nasocephalus nasutus, 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
2 references- Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Trilobites from the Marathon Uplift, Texas2
- Trilobites from the Cedaria prolifica Zone (Cambrian, upper Guzhangian) of the Precordillera of Mendoza, western Argentina1
Each of the 3 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 Nasocephalus nasutus 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 Nasocephalus nasutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nasocephalus nasutus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNasocephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1954