Bathycheilus castilianus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathycheilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathycheilidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Bathycheilus castilianus 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bathycheilus castilianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bathycheilus castilianus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bathycheilus castilianus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Neseuretus avus5 sites
- Colpocoryphe thorali conjugens4 sites
- Salterocoryphe4 sites
- Pradoella pradoi2 sites
- Salterocoryphe salteri2 sites
- Asaphellus1 site
- Colporcoryphe roualuti1 site
- Colporcoryphe rouaulti1 site
- Ectillaenus1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Hungioides1 site
- Isabelinia glabrata1 site
- Kloucekia (Kloucekia) drevermanni1 site
- Neseuretus tristani1 site
- Nobiliasaphus1 site
- Placoparia (Placoparia) cambriensis1 site
- Retamaspis melendezi1 site
- Toletanaspis1 site
- Uralichas1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bathycheilus castilianus, 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
2 references- Calymenacea (Trilobita) aus dem Ordovizium von Spanien; ihre Biostratigraphie, Oekologie und Systematik7
- Precisiones sobre los trilobites del arroyo del Acebron, Ventas con Pena Aguilera, Toledo1
Each of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bathycheilus castilianus 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 Bathycheilus castilianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bathycheilus castilianus 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 itBathycheilus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hammann 1983