Phytophilaspis

Phytophilaspis is a phosphatized genus of trilobite-like arthropod with eyes, found in association with algal remains. It dwelt in well-lit, shallow waters.

Phytophilaspis

Andre Yu. Ivantsov · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ArtiopodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 512.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Phytophilaspis 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

1 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

Sinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°E

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

Phytophilaspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Phytophilaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phytophilaspis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Phytophilaspis

Credit
Andre Yu. Ivantsov
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phytophilaspis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArtiopoda through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ivantsov 1999