Selenopeltis vultuosa
No picture of Selenopeltis vultuosa 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 Selenopeltis vultuosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SelenopeltisPBDB
- 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 least 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.1 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
2 occurrences of Selenopeltis vultuosa 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- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Selenopeltis vultuosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Selenopeltis vultuosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Selenopeltis vultuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Bohemoharpes1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Dionide1 site
- Eudolatites1 site
- Nobiliasaphus1 site
- Phacopidina1 site
- Prionocheilus verneuili1 site
- Symphysops1 site
- Ulugtella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Selenopeltis vultuosa, 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- The trilobite assemblage of the Declivolithus Fauna (lower Katian, Ordovician) of Morocco: a review with new data1
- Proetide triolobites from the Cystoid Limestone (Ashgill) of NW Spain, and the suprageneric classification of related forms1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Selenopeltis vultuosa 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 Selenopeltis vultuosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Selenopeltis vultuosa 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 itSelenopeltis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pribyl and Vanek 1966