Viaphacops salteri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ViaphacopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
6 occurrences of Viaphacops salteri 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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 Viaphacops salteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Viaphacops salteri and its relatives
DevonianWhere Viaphacops salteri and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Pleurodictyum5 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Brachiopoda3 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Leptostrophia (Rhytistrophia)3 sites
- Metacryphaeus3 sites
- Platyostoma lineata3 sites
- Schellwienella3 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus3 sites
- Acastoides2 sites
- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Amphigenia2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Australospirifer2 sites
- Brachyspirifer2 sites
- Calmonia2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Conulariida2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cryptonella2 sites
- Cymostrophia2 sites
- Cypricardinia2 sites
- Dictyostrophia (Dictyostrophia) cooperi2 sites
- Elita2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Viaphacops salteri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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
3 references- Die Trilobiten aus dem Devon Boliviens und ihre Bedeutung fuer Stratigraphie und Tiergeographie3
- A contribution to the knowledge of the Devonian faunas of Colombia2
- A Devonian fauna from Colombia1
Each of the 6 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 Viaphacops salteri 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 Viaphacops salteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Viaphacops salteri 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 itViaphacops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kozlowski 1923)