Telephina bicuspis
No picture of Telephina bicuspis 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 Telephina bicuspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TelephinaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Telephinidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Telephinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
14 occurrences of Telephina bicuspis 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
14 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Telephina bicuspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Telephina bicuspis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Telephina bicuspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Telephina (Telephina) mobergi5 sites
- Ogygiocaris sarsi4 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) intermedia2 sites
- Telephina (Telephina) vesca2 sites
- Telephina prattensis2 sites
- Ampyxina powelli1 site
- Nemagraptus gracilis1 site
- Robergia major1 site
- Sculptaspis erratica1 site
- Telephina (Telephina)1 site
- Telephina gelasinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Telephina bicuspis, 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 Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 14. The trilobite family Telephinidae9
- Ordovician trilobites of the family Telephidae and concerned stratigraphic correlations5
Each of the 14 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 Telephina bicuspis 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 Telephina bicuspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Telephina bicuspis 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 itTelephina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)