Triarthropsis limbata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriarthropsisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 488.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Triarthropsis limbata 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Triarthropsis limbata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Triarthropsis limbata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Triarthropsis limbata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Idiomesus levisensis2 sites
- Bayfieldia binodosa1 site
- Bowmania lassieae1 site
- Bynumina vescula1 site
- Cherrycreekia benjii1 site
- Dikelocephalus minnesotensis1 site
- Euptychaspis dougali1 site
- Eurekia rintintini1 site
- Glaberaspis scoobydooi1 site
- Illaenurus montanensis1 site
- Notchpeakia cherrycreekensis1 site
- Prosaukia oldyelleri1 site
- Saukia tumida1 site
- Sunwaptia plutoi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Triarthropsis limbata, 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- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom2
- A Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) Silicified Trilobite Fauna from Nevada1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Triarthropsis limbata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Triarthropsis limbata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTriarthropsis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1959