Cybeloides spinifera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CybeloidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cybeloides
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cybeloides spinifera 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
2 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
2 formations
- Craighead Formation · Balclatchie Group1
- Ardwell Farm Formation · Ardwell Group1
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The named rock units Cybeloides spinifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cybeloides spinifera and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cybeloides spinifera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Hemiarges angustifrons2 sites
- Remopleurides2 sites
- Achatella (Achatella) consobrina1 site
- Amphilichas1 site
- Amphilichas declivis1 site
- Amphilichas planus1 site
- Ampyx1 site
- Arthrorhachis1 site
- Atractopyge killochanensis1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Calyptaulax brongniartii1 site
- Celtencrinurus praecursor1 site
- Ceraurinella1 site
- Cybelinae1 site
- Cybellela1 site
- Cyphoproetus1 site
- Cyphoproetus facetus1 site
- Decoroproetus jamesoni1 site
- Diacanthaspis1 site
- Dimeropyge1 site
- Encrinuroides1 site
- Eobronteus1 site
- Flexicalymene shirleyi1 site
- Flexicalymeninae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cybeloides spinifera, 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- Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland1
- Caradocian trilobites from the mudstones at Craighead Quarry, near Girvan, Ayrshire1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Cybeloides spinifera 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 Cybeloides spinifera, 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 itCybeloides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tripp 1954