Telopeltis
No picture of Telopeltis 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 Telopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScutelluinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 375.2 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Telopeltis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Telopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Telopeltis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Telopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Rudybole adorfensis angusta2 sites
- Acuticryphops klapperi1 site
- Canningbole henwoodorum1 site
- Canningbole latimargo1 site
- Canningbole macromma1 site
- Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) australis1 site
- Chlupaciparia (Australoparia) lata1 site
- Eskoharpes palanasus1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Palmatolepis linguiformis1 site
- Palmatolepis playfordi1 site
- Palmatolepis semichatovae1 site
- Palpebralia pustulata1 site
- Palpebralina ocellifer1 site
- Palpebralina pseudopalpebralis ultima1 site
- Pteroparia extrema1 site
- Rudybole brecciae1 site
- Rudybole depressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Telopeltis, 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
3 references- Patterns Of Evolution And Extinction In Proetid Trilobites During The Late Devonian Mass Extinction Event, Canning Basin, Western Australia2
- The effect of environmental changes on the evolution and extinction of Late Devonian trilobites from the northern Canning Basin, Western Australia1
- New Styginids from the Late Devonian of Western Australia: The Last Corynexochid Trilobites1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Telopeltis 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 Telopeltis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Telopeltis 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 itScutelluinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McNamara and Feist 2006