Cydonocephalus
No picture of Cydonocephalus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cydonocephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthoparyphinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 475.6 Mya to 457.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Cydonocephalus 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
9 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
4 formations
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group5
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group2
- Valhallfonna Formation1
- Yijianfang Formation1
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The named rock units Cydonocephalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cydonocephalus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cydonocephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Carolinites4 sites
- Nileus4 sites
- Calycocoelia typicalis3 sites
- Eoleperditia3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Ischyrotoma3 sites
- Maclurites3 sites
- Paralenorthis minusculus3 sites
- Protocalymene3 sites
- Remopleurides3 sites
- Schmidtella3 sites
- Ectenonotus2 sites
- Hyperchilarina2 sites
- Kawina2 sites
- Leperditella2 sites
- Niobe quadraticaudata2 sites
- Orthidiella2 sites
- Pseudomera2 sites
- Pseudomera barrandei2 sites
- Taphrodonta2 sites
- <cybelinid>1 site
- Acidiphorus1 site
- Acodus1 site
- Agnostida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cydonocephalus, 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
6 references- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada4
- Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) cheirurid trilobites from the Table Cove Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada1
- A Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) Calathium reef complex on the carbonate ramp of the northwestern Tarim Block, northwest China: A sedimentological approach1
- The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation1
- Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States1
- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Cydonocephalus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cydonocephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cydonocephalus 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 itAcanthoparyphinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington 1963