Achlysopsis liokata

Achlysopsis liokata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AchlysopsisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian510–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510.2 Mya504.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Achlysopsis liokata 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

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

2 formations

Chisholm — 39.54°N, 112.92°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°W

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

Achlysopsis liokata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Achlysopsis liokata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Achlysopsis liokata, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Achlysopsis liokata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Achlysopsis liokata 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 itAchlysopsis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritz 1968