Aphelotoxon marginata

Aphelotoxon marginata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphelotoxonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phylacteridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 493.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497.5 Mya493 Mya

2 occurrences of Aphelotoxon marginata 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

2 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

2 formations

Dunderberg — 37.15°N, 116.00°WCorset Spring Shale — 38.87°N, 114.32°W

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The named rock units Aphelotoxon marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aphelotoxon marginata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Aphelotoxon marginata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aphelotoxon marginata, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aphelotoxon marginata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Aphelotoxon marginata 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 itAphelotoxon through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1965