Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Toxochasmops (Schmidtops)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus 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
15 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Achradocystites1 site
- Barrandeocerid indet.1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Discoceras1 site
- Discoceras rarospira1 site
- Discoceras vasalemmense1 site
- Hemibeloitoceras1 site
- Hemibeloitoceras molis1 site
- Isorthoceras cavi1 site
- Isorthoceras maris1 site
- Oncoceratidae1 site
- Ordogeisonoceras tartuensis1 site
- Orthonybyoceras1 site
- Orthonybyoceras dyeri1 site
- Orthonybyoceras isakari1 site
- Orthonybyoceras moisense1 site
- Pleurorthoceras organi1 site
- Rostricellula nobilis1 site
- Septomena cryptoides1 site
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) trivia1 site
- Striatocycloceras undulostriatum1 site
- Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus1 site
- Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) vironiensis1 site
- Vasalemmoceras tolerabile1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus, 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 referenceEach of the 15 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 Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus 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 Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) maximus 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 itToxochasmops (Schmidtops) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schmidt 1881)