Cybele bellatula

Cybele bellatula is the fossil of an extinct trilobite from the Lower Ordovician. The genus was named after Cybele, the ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman goddess representing Gaia, the deified Earth Mother. The specific name means 'pretty, little' and is used as a term of endearment.

Cybele bellatula

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 21 of 21 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471.8 Mya463.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Cybele bellatula 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

21 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

4 formations

Volkhov — 59.97°N, 32.57°ELynna — 59.97°N, 32.57°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°EHolen — 57.32°N, 17.00°E

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

Cybele bellatula and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cybele bellatula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cybele bellatula, 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

Each of the 21 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 Cybele bellatula

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalman 1827)