Apatokephalus

Apatokephalus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RemopleurididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 120 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 115 of 120 occurrencesOrdovician498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 1 occurrence490–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–487 Mya — about 1 occurrence487–485 Mya — about 10 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 12 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 17 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 13 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 13 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 13 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 13 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 5 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 4 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 4 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488.9 Mya468 Mya497.8 Mya456.5 Mya

120 occurrences of Apatokephalus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

120 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

42 formations

Santa Rosita — 23.57°S, 65.45°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 65.54°WSanta Rosita — 24.52°S, 65.55°WSanta Rosita — 24.50°S, 65.75°WSanta Rosita — 22.21°S, 64.89°WSanta Rosita — 23.47°S, 65.34°WSanta Rosita — 23.58°S, 65.34°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WSanta Rosita — 22.66°S, 65.17°WSanta Rosita — 22.51°S, 65.10°WKamlak — 51.62°N, 85.67°EDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WUpper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 27.88°N, 11.42°WUpper Fezouata — 27.82°N, 11.40°WUpper Fezouata — 30.40°N, 5.71°WUpper Fezouata — 30.82°N, 5.82°WGoodwin — 36.88°N, 116.66°WGoodwin — 39.20°N, 116.25°WNya — 68.00°N, 88.82°ENya — 67.47°N, 87.82°ENya — 68.07°N, 87.85°ENya — 68.12°N, 86.53°ESurvey Peak — 52.88°N, 118.08°WLandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.22°ECouches du Foulon — 43.47°N, 3.05°ECeratopyge — 58.00°N, 14.00°ECeratopyge — 55.58°N, 14.13°EOutram — 52.88°N, 118.08°WSaint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.53°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.64°WAlum — 59.14°N, 11.18°ETrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EValmy — 38.87°N, 117.92°WBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°EShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°WAlum Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EGoutang — 26.00°N, 108.00°EMadaoyu — 29.00°N, 111.00°EPanjiazui — 29.00°N, 111.00°ETarija Concha — 21.00°S, 65.00°W

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The named rock units Apatokephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apatokephalus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Apatokephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

572 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Apatokephalus, 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

51 references

Each of the 120 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. 39 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Apatokephalus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brögger 1896