Syspacephalus variosus

No picture of Syspacephalus variosus 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 Syspacephalus variosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCambrian510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510.2 Mya504.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Syspacephalus variosus 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

17 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

2 formations

Emigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WEmigrant — 37.63°N, 117.25°WMonola — 37.01°N, 117.79°WMonola — 37.08°N, 117.86°W

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

Syspacephalus variosus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Syspacephalus variosus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Syspacephalus variosus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 17 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

Media content0

No picture of Syspacephalus variosus 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 Syspacephalus variosus, 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 itPtychoparella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundberg and McCollum 2003