Trimerocephalus tardispinosus

No picture of Trimerocephalus tardispinosus 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 Trimerocephalus tardispinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TrimerocephalusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Trimerocephalus
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB, for Trimerocephalus
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 365.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian369–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369 Mya364.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Trimerocephalus tardispinosus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

2 occurrences

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

Virgin Hills — 18.51°S, 125.95°EVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.08°E

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The named rock units Trimerocephalus tardispinosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Trimerocephalus tardispinosus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Trimerocephalus tardispinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trimerocephalus tardispinosus, 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

Each of the 2 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 Trimerocephalus tardispinosus 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 Trimerocephalus tardispinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Trimerocephalus tardispinosus 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 itTrimerocephalus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Feist and Becker 1997