Ellipsotaphrus

Ellipsotaphrus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclopygidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 459.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 7 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468 Mya459.3 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Ellipsotaphrus 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

7 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

4 formations

Pontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WLlanfallteg — 52.00°N, 5.00°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Ellipsotaphrus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ellipsotaphrus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ellipsotaphrus, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Ellipsotaphrus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ellipsotaphrus 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCyclopygidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittard 1952