Tonopahella goldfieldensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TonopahellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Tonopahella
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Tonopahella goldfieldensis 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
18 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tonopahella goldfieldensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tonopahella goldfieldensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tonopahella goldfieldensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Onchocephalites claytonensis8 sites
- Oryctocephalus americanus4 sites
- Syspacephalus variosus3 sites
- Amecephalus arrojosensis2 sites
- Mexicella robusta2 sites
- Corynexochidae1 site
- Eokochaspis nodosa1 site
- Onchocephalus maior1 site
- Oryctocephalites runcinatus1 site
- Oryctocephalus1 site
- Oryctocephalus orientalis1 site
- Ptychoparioidea1 site
- Tonopahella walcotti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Tonopahella goldfieldensis, 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- Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA17
- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the trilobite faunas from the Mount Clark and Mount Cap formations (early and middle Cambrian), eastern Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada1
Each of the 18 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 Tonopahella goldfieldensis 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 Tonopahella goldfieldensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tonopahella goldfieldensis 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 itTonopahella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundberg and McCollum 2003