Apatokephalus sarculum
No picture of Apatokephalus sarculum 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 Apatokephalus sarculum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApatokephalusPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 481.1 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Apatokephalus sarculum 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Apatokephalus sarculum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apatokephalus sarculum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apatokephalus sarculum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anatifopsis1 site
- Asaphellus homfrayi1 site
- Calcichordata <indet. sp.1>1 site
- Calcichordata <indet. sp.2>1 site
- Calcichordata <indet. sp.3>1 site
- Eocrinoidea1 site
- Eurytreta1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Leptoplastides salteri1 site
- Lingulata1 site
- Litagnostus meniscus1 site
- Parapilekia1 site
- Prochauvelicystis1 site
- Pseudokainella1 site
- Shumardia (Conophrys) salopiensis1 site
- Skljarella cracens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Apatokephalus sarculum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Apatokephalus sarculum 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 Apatokephalus sarculum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apatokephalus sarculum 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 itApatokephalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey and Owens 1991