Dasometopus breviceps
No picture of Dasometopus breviceps was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Dasometopus breviceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasometopusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Holocephalinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dasometopus breviceps on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Dasometopus breviceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dasometopus breviceps and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dasometopus breviceps and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Solenopleura2 sites
- Aiaiaspis1 site
- Aldanaspis1 site
- Anomocarina splendens1 site
- Anopolenus1 site
- Bailiaspis1 site
- Belovia1 site
- Corynexochus1 site
- Glaberagnostus cicer1 site
- Granularaspis1 site
- Hartshillia1 site
- Hypagnostus1 site
- Juraspis1 site
- Koldinia1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Kuraspis1 site
- Lejopyge armata1 site
- Lejopyge laevigatus1 site
- Linguagnostus1 site
- Maiaspis quadrata1 site
- Megagnostus1 site
- Oidalagnostus1 site
- Opsidiscus bilobatus1 site
- Paradoxides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dasometopus breviceps, 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- Late Middle Cambrian trilobites of Siberian Aspect from the Farewell Terrane, Southwestern Alaska1
- Trilobites of the Mayian Stage in the southeastern Siberian Platform1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dasometopus breviceps was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Dasometopus breviceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dasometopus breviceps 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 itDasometopus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1878)