Sphaerocare globifrons
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaerocarePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Sphaerocare
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Sphaerocare globifrons 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian46%
- Ordovician54%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sphaerocare globifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sphaerocare globifrons and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Sphaerocare globifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Machairagnostus tmetus3 sites
- Shumardia erquensis3 sites
- Asaphellus riojanus2 sites
- Kainella conica2 sites
- Onychopyge riojana2 sites
- Parabolina argentina2 sites
- Parabolinella argentinensis2 sites
- Plicatolina scalpta2 sites
- Rhadinopleura eurycephala2 sites
- Angelina1 site
- Angelina hyeronimi1 site
- Asaphellus catamarcensis1 site
- Bodenbenderia longifrons1 site
- Brackebuschia1 site
- Deltacare prosops1 site
- Dubhglasina depressus1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Geragnostus (Microagnostus) calviformis1 site
- Geragnostus (Microagnostus) micropeltis1 site
- Gymnagnostus1 site
- Gymnagnostus perinflatus1 site
- Kainella1 site
- Kainella meridionalis1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sphaerocare globifrons, 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- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina2
- La transicion Cambrico-Ordovicico en la Formacion Volcancito (sierra de Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina)1
Each of the 3 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphaerocare globifrons 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 Sphaerocare globifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaerocare globifrons 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 itSphaerocare through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957