Calyptolepta

No picture of Calyptolepta 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 Calyptolepta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrorudiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 15 of 15 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469.9 Mya457.7 Mya

15 occurrences of Calyptolepta 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

15 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

8 formations

Dashaba — 28.33°N, 103.83°ECobbs Arm — 49.54°N, 54.78°WCobbs Arm — 49.55°N, 54.75°WUzunbulak — 43.92°N, 75.41°ESillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°EShihtzupu — 27.85°N, 105.02°EOtta Conglomerate — 61.77°N, 9.53°ELashkarak — 36.36°N, 54.75°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.22°E

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

Calyptolepta and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Calyptolepta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Calyptolepta, 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

7 references

Each of the 15 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Calyptolepta 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 Calyptolepta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGrorudiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neuman 1976