Phacops iowensis

Phacops iowensis

Christian Franke · 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
PhacopsPBDB
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 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388.4 Mya381.8 Mya

5 occurrences of Phacops iowensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

4 formations

Little Cedar — 41.83°N, 90.23°WThunder Bay Limestone — 45.06°N, 83.43°WPotter Farm — 45.08°N, 83.52°WHungry Hollow — 43.10°N, 81.82°W

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

Phacops iowensis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Phacops iowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phacops iowensis, 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

2 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Phacops iowensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Christian Franke
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 itPhacops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delo 1935