Elliptocephala jaredi
No picture of Elliptocephala jaredi 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 Elliptocephala jaredi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElliptocephalaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elliptocephala jaredi 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
3 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 Elliptocephala jaredi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elliptocephala jaredi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elliptocephala jaredi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Elliptocephala logani2 sites
- Holmiella domackae2 sites
- Judomia absita2 sites
- Bradyfallotaspis coriae1 site
- Bradyfallotaspis nicolascagei1 site
- Bradyfallotaspis sekwiensis1 site
- Mesonacis wileyi1 site
- Mummaspis delgadoae1 site
- Nevadia saupeae1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Olenellus (Olenellus) fowleri1 site
- Olenellus getzi1 site
- Trilobita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elliptocephala jaredi, 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
1 referenceEach 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.
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No picture of Elliptocephala jaredi 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 Elliptocephala jaredi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elliptocephala jaredi 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 itElliptocephala through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gapp and Lieberman 2014