Asaphellus catamarcensis

Asaphellus catamarcensis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 69 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 68 of 69 occurrencesOrdovician491–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 4 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 4 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 4 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 4 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 4 occurrences483–483 Mya — about 4 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 4 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 4 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 4 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 4 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 4 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 4 occurrences491.5 Mya476.6 Mya

69 occurrences of Asaphellus catamarcensis 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

69 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

10 formations

Santa Rosita — 23.59°S, 65.37°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 65.54°WSanta Rosita — 23.75°S, 65.53°WSanta Rosita — 24.50°S, 65.75°WSanta Rosita — 22.21°S, 64.89°WSanta Rosita — 22.76°S, 65.20°WDevendeus or Saladillo — 23.37°S, 65.38°WDevendeus or Saladillo — 24.54°S, 65.74°WChañarcito — 23.58°S, 65.42°WChañarcito — 23.74°S, 65.51°WDevendeus — 24.25°S, 65.86°WDevendeus — 24.54°S, 65.74°WVolcancito — 28.87°S, 67.69°WCasayok — 22.95°S, 65.39°WFloresta — 22.96°S, 65.43°WCoquena — 23.73°S, 65.52°WTaique — 23.84°S, 66.00°WSaladillo — 24.54°S, 65.74°W

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The named rock units Asaphellus catamarcensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asaphellus catamarcensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Asaphellus catamarcensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Asaphellus catamarcensis, 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

2 references

Each of the 69 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 Asaphellus catamarcensis

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 of Asaphellus catamarcensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1935