Bathycheilus
Searched as Bathycheilus perplexus. The Paleobiology Database treats Bathycheilus as the accepted name.
Bathycheilus is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida. It was described by Holub in 1908.
No picture of Bathycheilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bathycheilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathycheilidaePBDB
- 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 6.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 463.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bathycheilus 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 Bathycheilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathycheilus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bathycheilus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
368 taxa- Colpocoryphe16 sites
- Parabathycheilus gallicus11 sites
- Asaphellus10 sites
- Apatokephalus9 sites
- Geragnostus9 sites
- Prionocheilus9 sites
- Redonia9 sites
- Toletanaspis8 sites
- Ampyx priscus7 sites
- Balantiocystis7 sites
- Carcassonnella courtessolei7 sites
- Didymograptus7 sites
- Neseuretus7 sites
- Babinka6 sites
- Colpocoryphe thorali6 sites
- Coxiconchia6 sites
- Ectillaenus6 sites
- Selenopeltis6 sites
- Thoralispira laevis6 sites
- Ampyx5 sites
- Asaphellus jujuanus5 sites
- Euloma5 sites
- Lesueurilla prima5 sites
- Neseuretus avus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Bathycheilus, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bathycheilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bathycheilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBathycheilidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holub 1908