Plagiura cercops
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlagiuraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- 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.
8 occurrences of Plagiura cercops 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
8 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Plagiura cercops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Plagiura cercops and its relatives
CambrianWhere Plagiura cercops and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Hadrocephalites convexus7 sites
- Amecephalus cleora6 sites
- Fieldaspis5 sites
- Kochiella eiffelensis5 sites
- Kochiella4 sites
- Kochiella maxeyi4 sites
- Onchocephalus4 sites
- Stenothecoides elongata4 sites
- Protoconchioides rasettii3 sites
- Tichkaella insulcata3 sites
- Caborcella collaris2 sites
- Dolichometopsis2 sites
- Fieldaspis bilobata2 sites
- Hadrocephalites2 sites
- Onchocephalus maior2 sites
- Tichkaella carinata2 sites
- Fieldaspis celer1 site
- Fieldaspis superba1 site
- Hadrocephalites cecinna1 site
- Linevitus billingsi1 site
- Loxopeltis problematica1 site
- Nisusia (Jamesella) lowi1 site
- Nyella columbiana1 site
- Onchocephalites laevis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Plagiura cercops, 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- Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains5
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Cambrian geology and paleontology, 3, fauna of the Mount Whyte Formation1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Plagiura cercops was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Plagiura cercops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plagiura cercops 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlagiura through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1917)