Tricrepicephalus thoosa
No picture of Tricrepicephalus thoosa 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 Tricrepicephalus thoosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TricrepicephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Tricrepicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tricrepicephalus thoosa 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
4 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
1 formation
- Nolichucky Formation · Consauga Group4
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The named rock units Tricrepicephalus thoosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tricrepicephalus thoosa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tricrepicephalus thoosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Crepicephalus2 sites
- Tricrepicephalus comus2 sites
- Aphelaspis camiro1 site
- Aphelaspis walcotti1 site
- Blountia alexas1 site
- Blountia tennesseensis1 site
- Blountiella anaxis1 site
- Coosella1 site
- Coosina amage1 site
- Cycloholcus nummus1 site
- Dicellomus appalachia1 site
- Dresbachia1 site
- Kingstonia1 site
- Maryvillia arion1 site
- Meteoraspis1 site
- Syntrophioides harlanensis1 site
- Tricrepicephalus tripunctatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tricrepicephalus thoosa, 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
4 references- Upper Cambrian trilobite faunas of Northeastern Tennessee1
- Some new Cambrian bellerophont gastropods1
- Fauna of the basal Bonneterre Dolomite (Upper Cambrian) of southeastern Missouri1
- Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 3 - Cambrian 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tricrepicephalus thoosa 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 Tricrepicephalus thoosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tricrepicephalus thoosa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTricrepicephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1916)