Pterocephalia

Pterocephalia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterocephaliinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pterocephaliidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 495 Mya to 493.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 76 of 76 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 76 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 5 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 5 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 5 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 5 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 5 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 5 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 5 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 4 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence495 Mya493.5 Mya497.5 Mya486.4 Mya

76 occurrences of Pterocephalia 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

76 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

21 formations

Collier Shale — 35.00°N, 93.00°WCollier Shale — 34.67°N, 93.23°WCollier Shale — 34.71°N, 92.98°WCollier Shale — 34.68°N, 93.08°WWilberns — 30.43°N, 98.37°WWilberns — 30.64°N, 98.26°WWilberns — 30.51°N, 98.73°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°WDavis — 39.64°N, 86.86°WDavis — 37.84°N, 90.53°WDavis — 37.93°N, 90.73°WCorset Spring Shale — 38.52°N, 114.97°WCorset Spring Shale — 38.87°N, 114.32°WNopah — 40.00°N, 115.00°WNopah — 39.00°N, 116.00°WNopah — 36.46°N, 116.77°WReagan Sandstone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WOrr — 36.17°N, 115.14°WOrr — 38.70°N, 113.44°WOrr — 39.74°N, 113.41°WOrr — 38.54°N, 113.54°WWindfall — 37.15°N, 116.00°WWindfall — 39.45°N, 115.97°WSnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WSnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.49°N, 98.52°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.37°WBison Creek — 51.50°N, 116.20°WDunderberg Shale — 39.97°N, 114.88°WHoney Creek Limestone — 34.39°N, 97.12°WWoods Hollow Boulders — 30.20°N, 103.24°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WOpen Door Limestone — 43.29°N, 109.83°WUnit H — 49.67°N, 115.35°WJones Ridge Limestone — 65.08°N, 141.10°WDunderberg — 37.15°N, 116.00°WWhipple Cave — 38.52°N, 114.97°WGorbiyachin — 68.00°N, 88.82°E

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The named rock units Pterocephalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterocephalia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pterocephalia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Pterocephalia, 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

26 references

Each of the 76 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Pterocephalia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPterocephaliinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1849)