Paciphacops argentinus

Paciphacops argentinus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaciphacopsPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 50 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444 Mya392 Mya

6 occurrences of Paciphacops argentinus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

6 occurrences

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

1 formation

Los Espejos — 30.25°S, 68.75°WLos Espejos — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLos Espejos — 30.22°S, 68.88°W

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The named rock units Paciphacops argentinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paciphacops argentinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paciphacops argentinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Paciphacops argentinus, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Paciphacops argentinus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itPaciphacops through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Thomas 1905)