Delocare
Delocare is a trilobite in the order Phacopida, that existed during the lower Devonian in what is now Germany. It was described by Struve in 1958, and the type species is Delocare boopis, which was originally described under the genus Cryphaeys by Richter in 1909. The type locality was in the Eifel mountain range.
No picture of Delocare 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 Delocare, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcastidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
2 occurrences of Delocare on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Rosenum Slate Formation1
- Abelgas Formation · La Vid Group1
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The named rock units Delocare has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Delocare and its relatives
DevonianWhere Delocare and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Acastava1 site
- Asteropyge perforata1 site
- Braunops obsoletus1 site
- Burmeisteria1 site
- Hallandclarkeops cantarmoricus1 site
- Kolihapeltis1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Longiproetus1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Paralepidoproetus chouberti1 site
- Phacops (Phacops) saberensis1 site
- Platyscutellum1 site
- Proetus1 site
- Radiaspis1 site
- Scutellum1 site
- Treveropyge acrifrons1 site
- Treveropyge iberica1 site
- Trimerus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Delocare, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The stratigraphy and structure of the Devonian rocks around Liskeard, east Cornwall, with regional implications1
- Devonian trilobites of the southern Cantabrian Mountains (Northern Spain) with a systematic description of the Asteropyginae1
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. 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 Delocare 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 Delocare, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Delocare was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Delocare”
- 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 itAcastidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Struve 1958