Crepicephalus iowensis

Crepicephalus iowensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrepicephalusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Crepicephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 493.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian505–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505 Mya493 Mya

4 occurrences of Crepicephalus iowensis 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

4 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

2 formations

Petit Jardin — 48.66°N, 58.83°WRiley — 30.84°N, 98.34°W

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

Crepicephalus iowensis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Crepicephalus iowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crepicephalus iowensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Crepicephalus iowensis

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Crepicephalus iowensis 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 itCrepicephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1952)