Oryctocephalites resseri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OryctocephalitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Oryctocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Oryctocephalites resseri 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 Oryctocephalites resseri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oryctocephalites resseri and its relatives
CambrianWhere Oryctocephalites resseri and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Amecephalus cleora2 sites
- Dolichometopsis2 sites
- Fieldaspis2 sites
- Hadrocephalites convexus2 sites
- Kochiella eiffelensis2 sites
- Kochiella maxeyi2 sites
- Onchocephalus2 sites
- Protoconchioides rasettii2 sites
- Stenothecoides elongata2 sites
- Tichkaella insulcata2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Fieldaspis bilobata1 site
- Hadrocephalites1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Kochiella1 site
- Kochina1 site
- Microryctocara nevadensis1 site
- Nyella columbiana1 site
- Onchocephalites claytonensis1 site
- Onchocephalus maior1 site
- Oryctocephalus indicus1 site
- Palmerara1 site
- Parapoulsenia lata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Oryctocephalites resseri, 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- Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA1
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 Oryctocephalites resseri 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 Oryctocephalites resseri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oryctocephalites resseri 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 itOryctocephalites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1951