Amecephalus laticaudum
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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 least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 508.2 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 512.1 Mya to 504.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Amecephalus laticaudum 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
8 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Amecephalus laticaudum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amecephalus laticaudum and its relatives
CambrianWhere Amecephalus laticaudum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Kootenia4 sites
- Kootenia crassa4 sites
- Athabaskia anax3 sites
- Glossopleura leona3 sites
- Kootenia incerta3 sites
- Oryctocephalites reynoldsi3 sites
- Zacanthoides3 sites
- Bythicheilus2 sites
- Pachyaspis gallagari2 sites
- Pagetia clytia2 sites
- Poliella denticulata2 sites
- Spencia2 sites
- Achlysopsis hemitora1 site
- Achlysopsis liokata1 site
- Acrothele affinis1 site
- Acrotreta definita1 site
- Acrotreta levata1 site
- Alokistocare septum1 site
- Alokistocare spencense1 site
- Alokistocarella spencei1 site
- Amecephalus idahoense1 site
- Amecephalus normale1 site
- Anabaraspis splendens1 site
- Archaeocyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Amecephalus laticaudum, 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
4 references- Cambrian trilobites from the Glossopleura walcotti Zone (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) of Mendoza, western Argentina3
- Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A.3
- Varlamov et al., 20081
- The Spence Shale and its fauna1
Each of the 8 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 laticaudum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 laticaudum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amecephalus laticaudum 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. (Resser 1939)