Elliptocephala sequomalus
No picture of Elliptocephala sequomalus 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 sequomalus, 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 33 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Elliptocephala sequomalus 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
1 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 sequomalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elliptocephala sequomalus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elliptocephala sequomalus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Elliptocephala laxocules1 site
- Elliptocephala parvifrons1 site
- Wanneria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Elliptocephala sequomalus, 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 1 occurrence 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Elliptocephala sequomalus 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 sequomalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elliptocephala sequomalus 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 itElliptocephala through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fritz 1972)