Maurotarion euryceps

Searched as Cyphaspis spryi. The Paleobiology Database treats Maurotarion euryceps as the accepted name.

No picture of Maurotarion euryceps 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 Maurotarion euryceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaurotarionPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Aulacopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 1.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 425 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurian427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427.2 Mya424.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Maurotarion euryceps on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

3 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

1 formation

Yan Yean — 37.30°S, 145.00°E

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

Maurotarion euryceps and its relatives

Silurian

Where Maurotarion euryceps and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Maurotarion euryceps, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Maurotarion euryceps 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 Maurotarion euryceps, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1901)