Thaleops punctata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThaleopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Thaleops punctata 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
6 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
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group2
- Frobisher Bay Formation2
- Amadjuak Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group1
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Thaleops punctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thaleops punctata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Thaleops punctata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Calyptaulax annulata2 sites
- Cheiruridae2 sites
- Eoleperditia2 sites
- Maclurites2 sites
- Pseudosphaerexochus2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- Uromystrum minor2 sites
- Vogdesia obtusus2 sites
- <Astraeospongid>1 site
- <heliomerinid>1 site
- <Isotelid>1 site
- <Scolecodonts>1 site
- Amplexopora1 site
- Apianurus narrawayi1 site
- Austinella1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni1 site
- Billingsaria parvituba1 site
- Bumastoides1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Ceraurus hudsoni1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Thaleops punctata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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
4 references- Ordovician megafauna, southern Baffin Island, Nunavat2
- Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York2
- A systematic revision of Thaleops (Trilobita: Illaenidae) with new species from the middle and late Ordovician of Oklahoma and New York1
- Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Thaleops punctata 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 Thaleops punctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thaleops punctata 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 itThaleops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1905)