Taenicephalus westropi

No picture of Taenicephalus westropi 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 Taenicephalus westropi, 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.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 488.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCambrian494–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences494 Mya488.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Taenicephalus westropi 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

1 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

1 formation

St. Charles — 41.90°N, 111.70°W

Loading coastlines…

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

Taenicephalus westropi and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Taenicephalus westropi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Taenicephalus westropi, 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 1 occurrence 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 Taenicephalus westropi 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 Taenicephalus westropi, 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.

Keep going

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. Chatterton and Gibb 2016