Cybelopsis

Cybelopsis is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Ordovician in what is now Greenland. It was described by Poulsen in 1927, and the type species is Cybelopsis speciosa. The type locality for the genus was the Nunatami Formation.

Cybelopsis

Sprinkle, James · CC0 · 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
CybelopsinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 3.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 484.3 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 28 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473.1 Mya – 469.4 Mya484.8 Mya456.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Cybelopsis 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

28 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

11 formations

Wah Wah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 39.07°N, 116.72°WKanosh Shale — 38.78°N, 113.59°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°WWahwah Limestone — 39.89°N, 113.37°WWahwah Limestone — 38.84°N, 113.46°WWahwah Limestone — 39.17°N, 112.17°WFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.72°S, 146.48°EFlorentine Valley Limestone — 42.71°S, 146.44°EKarmberg — 42.00°S, 146.00°ESkoki — 52.88°N, 118.08°WWahwah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WLehman — 38.78°N, 113.59°WSwan Peak — 38.78°N, 113.59°WOil Creek — 34.36°N, 97.14°W

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The named rock units Cybelopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cybelopsis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cybelopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cybelopsis, 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

8 references

Each of the 28 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 Cybelopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Sprinkle, James
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cybelopsis 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.

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 itCybelopsinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poulsen 1927