Peltura scaraboides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelturaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
- 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.
14 occurrences of Peltura scaraboides 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
14 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 Peltura scaraboides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Peltura scaraboides and its relatives
CambrianWhere Peltura scaraboides and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Triangulopyge humilis11 sites
- Ctenopyge bisulcata10 sites
- Ctenopyge (Ctenopyge) linnarssoni9 sites
- Ctenopyge fletcheri9 sites
- Triangulopyge majusculus9 sites
- Ctenopyge8 sites
- Sphaerophthalmus alatus7 sites
- Eoorthis2 sites
- Ceratreta tanneri1 site
- Ctenopyge (Ctenopyge)1 site
- Ctenopyge (Ctenopyge) gracilis1 site
- Ctenopyge (Eoctenopyge) angusta1 site
- Elkanaspis kinnekullensis1 site
- Parabolinella1 site
- Protopeltura1 site
- Protopeltura praecursor1 site
- Sphaerophthalmus flagellifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Peltura scaraboides, 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
6 references- Revision of the trilobite genus Sphaerophthalmus and relatives from the Furongian (Cambrian) Alum Shale Formation, Oslo Region, Norway8
- The Upper Cambrian faunas of Norway with descriptions of non-olenid invertebrate fossils2
- The First Remopleuridioidean Trilobite and the Earliest Parabolinella Species Recorded in the Furongian of Scandinavia1
- Upper Cambrian trilobite biostratigraphy and taphonomy at Kakeled on Kinnekulle, Västergötland, Sweden1
- The acrotretacean brachiopod Ceratreta tanneri (Metzger) from the Upper Cambrian of Baltoscandia1
- The Nærsnes section, Oslo Region, Norway: trilobite, graptolite and conodont fossils reviewed1
Each of the 14 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 Peltura scaraboides 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 Peltura scaraboides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peltura scaraboides 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 itPeltura through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlenberg 1821)