Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudosphaerexochusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pseudosphaerexochus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 400 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
12 occurrences of Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
5 formations
- Jonstorp Formation4
- Ulunda Mudstone Formation3
- Jerrestad Formation1
- Bestorp Limestone Formation1
- Lindegård Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Arthrorhachis tarda4 sites
- Amphitryon murchisonii3 sites
- Agnostus2 sites
- Asaphus2 sites
- Atractopyge dalmani2 sites
- Cybeloides loveni2 sites
- Hadromeros subulatus2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Lonchodomas portlocki2 sites
- Phillipsia2 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) parallelus2 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) wolkae2 sites
- Trinucleus2 sites
- Ampyx1 site
- Chirurus insignis1 site
- Chirurus pectinifer1 site
- Cybellela dentata1 site
- Dindymene1 site
- Dindymene ornata1 site
- Dionide1 site
- Diplograptus1 site
- Diplograptus pristis1 site
- Holopea mobergi1 site
- Illaenus angelini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps, 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- Cheirurina (Trilobita) from the upper Ordovician of Västergötland and other regions of Sweden9
- Om de Chasmopskalken och Trinicleusskiffern motsvarande bildningarne I Skane2
- Middle-Upper Ordovician trilobites and stratigraphy along the Kyrkbacken rivulet in the Rostånga area, southern Sweden1
Each of the 12 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.
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No picture of Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps 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 Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps 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 itPseudosphaerexochus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnarsson 1866)