Onchonotus richardsoni
No picture of Onchonotus richardsoni 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 Onchonotus richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnchonotusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Onchonotus richardsoni 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
5 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
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Levis Conglomerate Formation1
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The named rock units Onchonotus richardsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Onchonotus richardsoni and its relatives
CambrianWhere Onchonotus richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Ptychopleurites dunbari3 sites
- Agnostus orion2 sites
- Bienvillia corax2 sites
- Heterocaryon tuberculatum2 sites
- Hungaia magnifica2 sites
- Lauzonella broeggeri2 sites
- Leiocoryphe occipitalis2 sites
- Loganopeltoides zenkeri2 sites
- Lotagnostus americanus2 sites
- Peracheilus communis2 sites
- Pseudagnostus canadensis2 sites
- Pseudagnostus gyps2 sites
- Acheilus limbatus1 site
- Arcifimbria brevifrons1 site
- Calculites microps1 site
- Elkanaspis unisulcata1 site
- Hungaia1 site
- Keithia1 site
- Keithiella cylindrica1 site
- Lecanopyge angustata1 site
- Lecanopyge prolifica1 site
- Levisella affinis1 site
- Levisella brevifrons1 site
- Loganellus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Onchonotus richardsoni, 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
2 references- Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Levis Conglomerate4
- Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Onchonotus richardsoni 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 Onchonotus richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onchonotus richardsoni 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 itOnchonotus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1911)