Cheilocephalus brevilobus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheilocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cheilocephalidae
- 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.
27 occurrences of Cheilocephalus brevilobus 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
27 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
8 formations
- Riley Formation12
- Deadwood Formation7
- Rabbitkettle Formation2
- Lincoln Peak Formation2
- Pilgrim Formation1
- Dunderberg Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Cheilocephalus brevilobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cheilocephalus brevilobus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cheilocephalus brevilobus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Aphelaspis haguei11 sites
- Glaphyraspis parva10 sites
- Aphelaspis walcotti9 sites
- Dunderbergia variagranula5 sites
- Glaphyraspis ornata5 sites
- Angulotreta triangularis4 sites
- Blountia bristolensis4 sites
- Labiostria conveximarginata3 sites
- Leperditiidae3 sites
- Aphelaspis constricta2 sites
- Aphelaspis longifrons2 sites
- Dytremacephalus granulosus2 sites
- Dytremacephalus laevis2 sites
- Glyptagnostus reticulatus2 sites
- Homagnostus obesus2 sites
- Innitagnostus inexpectans2 sites
- Porifera2 sites
- Pseudagnostus communis2 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta1 site
- Aphelaspis1 site
- Aphelaspis brachyphasis1 site
- Aphelaspis spinosa1 site
- Aphelaspis subditus1 site
- Apsotreta expansa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cheilocephalus brevilobus, 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
5 references- The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas12
- Trilobites, Biostratigraphy, and Lithostratigraphy of the Crepicephalus and Aphelaspis zones, Lower Deadwood formation (Marjuman and Steptoean Stages, Upper Cambrian), Black Hills, South Dakota7
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States5
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada2
- An Aphelaspis Zone faunule from Logan, Montana1
Each of the 27 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.
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No picture of Cheilocephalus brevilobus 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 Cheilocephalus brevilobus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheilocephalus brevilobus 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 itCheilocephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1916)