Taenicephalus gallupensis
No picture of Taenicephalus gallupensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Taenicephalus gallupensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaenicephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Parabolinoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 488.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Taenicephalus gallupensis 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Taenicephalus gallupensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Taenicephalus gallupensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Taenicephalus gallupensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Angulotreta tetonensis2 sites
- Billingsella perfecta2 sites
- Billingsella plicatella2 sites
- Ceratreta hebes2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Pseudodicellomus mosaicus2 sites
- Taenicephalus shumardi2 sites
- Angulotreta vescula1 site
- Eoorthis remnicha1 site
- Huenella texana1 site
- Lingulella desiderata1 site
- Maustonia nasuta1 site
- Orygmaspis contracta1 site
- Orygmaspis llanoensis1 site
- Parabolinoides cordillerensis1 site
- Strepsodiscus primordialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Taenicephalus gallupensis, 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 referenceEach 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.
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No picture of Taenicephalus gallupensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Taenicephalus gallupensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taenicephalus gallupensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTaenicephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grant 1965