Amecephalus arrojosensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmecephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Alokistocaridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 52 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Amecephalus arrojosensis 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
34 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Amecephalus arrojosensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amecephalus arrojosensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Amecephalus arrojosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Mexicella robusta10 sites
- Fieldaspis bilobata7 sites
- Nyella rara7 sites
- Wenkchemnia sulcata7 sites
- Onchocephalites claytonensis6 sites
- Syspacephalus variosus5 sites
- Tonopahella walcotti5 sites
- Poliella lomataspis4 sites
- Kochiella brevaspis3 sites
- Oryctocephalus3 sites
- Caborcella reducta2 sites
- Eokochaspis longspina2 sites
- Eokochaspis nodosa2 sites
- Eokochaspis piochensis2 sites
- Hadrocephalites rhytidodes2 sites
- Kochiella2 sites
- Mexicella mexicana2 sites
- Nyella plana2 sites
- Onchocephalites laevis2 sites
- Oryctocephalites runcinatus2 sites
- Oryctocephalus americanus2 sites
- Paraantagmus latus2 sites
- Poliella denticulata2 sites
- Syspacephalus crassus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Amecephalus arrojosensis, 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
5 references- Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA16
- Trilobites of the lower Middle Cambrian Poliella denticulata biozone (new) of southeastern Nevada9
- Ptychoparid trilobites of the Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval, Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada7
- Biostratigraphy of the traditional Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval in the outher shelf Emigrant Formation, Split Mountain East Section, Esmeralda County, Nevada1
- Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Caborca Region, Sonora, Mexico - physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleocurrent studies, and regional relations1
Each of the 34 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Amecephalus arrojosensis 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 Amecephalus arrojosensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amecephalus arrojosensis 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 itAmecephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lochman 1952)