Calocephalites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DokimokephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dokimokephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Calocephalites 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Calocephalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calocephalites and its relatives
CambrianWhere Calocephalites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Bynumina3 sites
- Deadwoodia2 sites
- Dellea2 sites
- Elvinia roemeri2 sites
- Iddingsia missouriensis2 sites
- Kindbladia affinis2 sites
- Pulchricapitus2 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta1 site
- Aphelotoxon1 site
- Bynumina lirae1 site
- Cheilocephalus1 site
- Cliffia lataegenae1 site
- Comanchia amplooculata1 site
- Deckera1 site
- Drabia1 site
- Elvinia1 site
- Kindbladia1 site
- Lingulida1 site
- Litocephalus1 site
- Nahannagnostus1 site
- Parabolina1 site
- Pseudagnostus1 site
- Pseudagnostus communis1 site
- Pseudosaratogia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Calocephalites, 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
3 references- Franconian (Upper Cambrian) trilobite faunas from the Elvins Group of Southeast Missouri3
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada1
- Fossils of Dresbachian and Franconian (Cambrian) age from the subsurface of west-central Indiana1
Each of the 5 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 Calocephalites 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 Calocephalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calocephalites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDokimokephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kurtz 1975