Apatokephalus serratus
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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 least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 481.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
28 occurrences of Apatokephalus serratus 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
28 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
12 formations
- Santa Rosita Formation8
- Alum Formation2
- Bjorkasholmen Formation1
- Shineton Shale Formation1
- Ceratopyge Formation1
- Azul Pampa Formation1
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The named rock units Apatokephalus serratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apatokephalus serratus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apatokephalus serratus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Asaphellus catamarcensis12 sites
- Notopeltis orthometopa10 sites
- Pyrimetopus pyrifrons9 sites
- Mekynophrys nanna8 sites
- Conophrys minutula6 sites
- Geragnostus6 sites
- Rossaspis rossi6 sites
- Parabolinella triarthroides5 sites
- Bienvillia angelini4 sites
- Bienvillia rectifrons4 sites
- Ceratopyge4 sites
- Conophrys pusilla4 sites
- Euloma4 sites
- Geragnostus (Geragnostus) sidenbladhi4 sites
- Leptoplastides marianus4 sites
- Orometopus4 sites
- Pseudokainella lata4 sites
- Bienvillia tetragonalis3 sites
- Dikelokephalina3 sites
- Geragnostus callaveiformis3 sites
- Hapalopleura clavata3 sites
- Harpides3 sites
- Kainella meridionalis3 sites
- Niobe3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Apatokephalus serratus, 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
7 references- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina19
- Rare Tremadocian trilobites from Norway3
- Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Trilobites from the Marathon Uplift, Texas2
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Trilobites of the Tremadoc Bjørkåsholmen Formation in the Oslo Region, Norway1
- On the Early Ordovician of Sweden stratigraphy and fauna1
- The Shineton Shales of the Wrekin District1
Each of the 28 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 Apatokephalus serratus 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 serratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apatokephalus serratus 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 itApatokephalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boeck 1838