Olenaspella regularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OlenaspellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Aphelaspidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Olenaspella regularis 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Olenaspella regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Olenaspella regularis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Olenaspella regularis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Listroa toxoura5 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta3 sites
- Aphelaspis subditus3 sites
- Cheilocephalus granulosus3 sites
- Glyptagnostus reticulatus3 sites
- Innitagnostus inexpectans3 sites
- Acmarhachis acutus2 sites
- Angulotreta2 sites
- Aphelaspinid indet.2 sites
- Aphelaspis brachyphasis2 sites
- Aspidagnostus rugosus2 sites
- Dicanthopyge quadrata2 sites
- Innitagnostus innitens2 sites
- Labiostria conveximarginata2 sites
- Pseudagnostus communis2 sites
- Aphelaspis1 site
- Aphelaspis haguei1 site
- Cheilocephalus brevilobus1 site
- Glaphyraspis parva1 site
- Hardyoides1 site
- Homagnostus obesus1 site
- Pseudagnostus securiger1 site
- Tholifrons1 site
- Welleraspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Olenaspella regularis, 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
3 references- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada3
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States3
- Glyptagnostus and associated trilobites in the United States1
Each of the 7 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 Olenaspella regularis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Olenaspella regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Olenaspella regularis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOlenaspella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1962