Notopeltis
No picture of Notopeltis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Notopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 468 Mya.
46 occurrences of Notopeltis 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
46 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
6 formations
- Santa Rosita Formation · Salta Group21
- Aspero Formation3
- Independencia Formation1
- Ninemile Formation1
- Coquena Formation1
- Áspero Formation1
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The named rock units Notopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notopeltis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Notopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Mekynophrys nanna22 sites
- Asaphellus catamarcensis15 sites
- Pyrimetopus pyrifrons14 sites
- Rossaspis rossi11 sites
- Apatokephalus serratus10 sites
- Bienvillia rectifrons8 sites
- Parabolinella triarthroides7 sites
- Conophrys minutula6 sites
- Geragnostus5 sites
- Apatokephalus4 sites
- Asaphellus4 sites
- Ceratopyge forficuloides3 sites
- Trinodus jujuyensis3 sites
- Nannopeltis modesta2 sites
- Nanorthis purmamarcaensis2 sites
- Shumardia2 sites
- Acerocarina1 site
- Asaphellina1 site
- Asaphellus jujuanus1 site
- Asaphida1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella)1 site
- Bucania1 site
- Didymograptellus protobifidus1 site
- Geragnostus (Geragnostus) callaveiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Notopeltis, 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
7 references- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina34
- Early Ordovician trilobites from the Nazareno area, northwestern Argentina5
- Tremadoc (earliest Ordovician) brachiopods from Purmamarca and the Sierra de Mojotoro, Cordillera Oriental of northwestern Argentina2
- Ordovician trilobites of Bolivia2
- El genero Macrocystella (Cystoidea) en el Tremadociano de Salta y Jujuy1
- El sistema ordovicico en Bolivia1
- Middle and Lower Ordovician Formations in Southernmost Nevada and Adjacent California1
Each of the 46 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 content0
No picture of Notopeltis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Notopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957