Dactylocephalus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 474.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician487–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 1 occurrence486–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–484 Mya — about 1 occurrence484–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–481 Mya — about 1 occurrence481–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–480 Mya — about 1 occurrence480–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–479 Mya — about 1 occurrence479–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–477 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477.1 Mya474.9 Mya487.4 Mya470.8 Mya

25 occurrences of Dactylocephalus 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

25 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

8 formations

Nantsinkwan — 28.62°N, 109.47°ENantsinkwan — 28.79°N, 109.29°ENanjinguan — 33.00°N, 111.00°ENanjinguan — 29.00°N, 109.00°ENanjinguan — 30.00°N, 111.00°ENanjinguan — 31.00°N, 111.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 107.00°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 109.00°ETongzi — 29.00°N, 109.00°EShirgesht — 34.10°N, 56.80°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 119.00°ELunshan — 32.00°N, 118.00°ESimeh-Kuh — 36.21°N, 54.23°EEmanuel — 18.65°S, 125.92°EDeh-Molla U16 — 36.36°N, 54.75°E

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

Dactylocephalus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dactylocephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Dactylocephalus, 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

11 references

Each of the 25 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 Dactylocephalus 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 Dactylocephalus, 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 itHungaiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hsu 1948