Griffithides acanthiceps
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GriffithidesPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Griffithides acanthiceps on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
5 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Griffithides acanthiceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Griffithides acanthiceps and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Griffithides acanthiceps and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Brachymetopus2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- <Microbialite>1 site
- Acanthoplecta1 site
- Alitaria1 site
- Amplexocarinia1 site
- Amplexus coralloides1 site
- Argentiproductus1 site
- Aulacophoria1 site
- Avonia1 site
- Beyrichoceras delicatum1 site
- Beyrichoceratoides1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bollandia1 site
- Bollandites1 site
- Bollandites castletonensis1 site
- Bollandites phillipsi1 site
- Bollandoceras micronotum1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calophyllum1 site
- Cinctifera medusa1 site
- Cladochonus crassus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Griffithides acanthiceps, 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- Die Trilobiten des belgischen Kohlenkalkes (Unter-Karbon). 5. Griffithides und Cyphinioides.3
- Microbialite-sponge-bryozoan-coral framestones in Lower Carboniferous (Late Visean) buildups of northern England (UK)1
- New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England1
Each of the 5 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 Griffithides acanthiceps 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 Griffithides acanthiceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Griffithides acanthiceps 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGriffithides through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1884