Rossicurus lepidus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RossicurusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hystricuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 488.9 Mya and 483.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rossicurus lepidus 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian38%
- Ordovician63%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rossicurus lepidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rossicurus lepidus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rossicurus lepidus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Bellefontia chamberlaini1 site
- Genalaticurus1 site
- Genalaticurus genalatus1 site
- Hintzecurus1 site
- Politicurus1 site
- Pseudokainella armatus1 site
- Symphysurina globocapitella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rossicurus lepidus, 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- Classification of the trilobite subfamilies Hystricurinae and Hintzecurinae subfam. nov. with new genera from the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) of Idaho and Utah1
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea1
Each of the 2 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 Rossicurus lepidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rossicurus lepidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itRossicurus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hintze 1953)