Chasmops odini

Bekker · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChasmopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.7 Mya and 453.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Chasmops odini 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chasmops odini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chasmops odini and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Chasmops odini and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Illaenus4 sites
- Neoasaphus4 sites
- Estoniops exilis3 sites
- Remopleurides3 sites
- Achatella kuckersianus2 sites
- Atractopyge2 sites
- Cybele (Cybelella)2 sites
- Illaenus crassicauda2 sites
- Paraceraurus aculeatus2 sites
- Acanthograptus1 site
- Asaphus1 site
- Asaphus (Neoasaphus) lepidus1 site
- Asaphus (Neoasaphus) nieszkowskii1 site
- Balticella1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella)1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Ceratopsis1 site
- Chilobolbina1 site
- Chilobolbina dentifera1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Clitambonites squamatus1 site
- Ctenobolbina1 site
- Dendrograptus1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chasmops odini, 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- Trilobite Biostratigraphy in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Western Leningrad Region6
- On the Chasmops series of Jemtland and Sodermanland (Tvaren)1
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Chasmops odini
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Bekker
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Chasmops odini 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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What may have been alongside itChasmops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1860