Estoniops alifrons
No picture of Estoniops alifrons 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 Estoniops alifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EstoniopsPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.2 Mya and 454 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Estoniops alifrons 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Pen-y-garnedd Formation2
- Gelli-grîn Formation · Lower Bala Group1
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The named rock units Estoniops alifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Estoniops alifrons and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Estoniops alifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Bicuspina2 sites
- Broeggerolithus2 sites
- Brongniartella2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Cremnorthis parva2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dalmanella modica2 sites
- Deacybele pauca2 sites
- Dinorthis2 sites
- Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica2 sites
- Howellites2 sites
- Kiaeromena2 sites
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Lingulasma2 sites
- Lophospira2 sites
- Nicolella actoniae2 sites
- Obolus2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Scopelochasmops cambrensis2 sites
- Sinuites2 sites
- Strophomenidae2 sites
- Vellamo2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Estoniops alifrons, 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- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales2
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV1
Each 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. 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 Estoniops alifrons 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 Estoniops alifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Estoniops alifrons 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 itEstoniops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McCoy 1851)