Selenopeltis

Searched as Selenopeltis buchi buchi. The Paleobiology Database treats Selenopeltis as the accepted name.

Selenopeltis is an extinct genus of odontopleurid trilobites in the family Odontopleuridae.

Selenopeltis

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
OdontopleuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 463.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 16 of 16 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 16 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463.8 Mya442.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Selenopeltis 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

16 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

5 formations

Liben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELiben — 49.68°N, 13.47°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Selenopeltis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Selenopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

856 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Selenopeltis, 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

2 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content2

Picture of Selenopeltis

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itOdontopleuridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847