Eurekia apopsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EurekiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurekiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Eurekia apopsis 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
12 occurrences- Cambrian73%
- Ordovician27%
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
5 formations
- Wilberns Formation · Moore Hollow Group5
- Rabbitkettle Formation3
- Signal Mountain Limestone Formation2
- Survey Peak Formation1
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group1
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The named rock units Eurekia apopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eurekia apopsis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eurekia apopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Larifugula leonensis6 sites
- Apatokephaloides clivosus4 sites
- Yukonaspis4 sites
- Acheilops masonensis3 sites
- Calvinella3 sites
- Idiomesus intermedius3 sites
- Phylacterus texanus3 sites
- Plethometopus obtusus3 sites
- Eurekia ulrichi2 sites
- Neoagnostus2 sites
- Pseudagnostus planulatus2 sites
- Tatonaspis2 sites
- Triarthropsis2 sites
- Apatokephaloides1 site
- Bienvillia corax1 site
- Bowmania americana1 site
- Corbinia horatio1 site
- Elkanaspis1 site
- Euptychaspis kirki1 site
- Idiomesus levisensis1 site
- Kathleenella subula1 site
- Lecanopyge1 site
- Leiobienvillia1 site
- Leiobienvillia terranovica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Eurekia apopsis, 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
6 references- Sunwaptan and Ibexian (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) trilobites of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Mountain River region, northern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada3
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Ptychaspid Biomere Wilberns Formation, central Texas3
- The Moore Hollow Group of Central Texas2
- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom2
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta1
- Correlation of Cambrian-Ordovician boundary between Europe and North America: new data from western Newfoundland1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Eurekia apopsis 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 Eurekia apopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eurekia apopsis 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 itEurekia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Winston and Nicholls 1967)