Hadrocephalites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychopariaceaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Ptychopariina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 52 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Hadrocephalites 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
35 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
5 formations
- Pioche Shale Formation18
- Mt. Whyte Formation12
- Carrara Formation3
- Rennie Shale Formation1
- La Laja Formation1
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The named rock units Hadrocephalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hadrocephalites and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hadrocephalites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Kochiella brevaspis12 sites
- Fieldaspis bilobata10 sites
- Amecephalus cleora8 sites
- Kochiella8 sites
- Plagiura cercops8 sites
- Poliella denticulata8 sites
- Fieldaspis7 sites
- Kochiella eiffelensis7 sites
- Nyella plana7 sites
- Poliella lomataspis7 sites
- Kochiella maxeyi6 sites
- Kochaspis liliana5 sites
- Onchocephalus5 sites
- Stenothecoides elongata5 sites
- Stephenaspis highlandensis5 sites
- Syspacephalus crassus5 sites
- Kochiella augusta4 sites
- Plagiura extensa4 sites
- Protoconchioides rasettii4 sites
- Tichkaella insulcata4 sites
- Amecephalus arrojosensis3 sites
- Bathyuriscus (Poliella) primus3 sites
- Dolichometopsis3 sites
- Oryctocephalus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Hadrocephalites, 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
7 references- Trilobites of the lower Middle Cambrian Poliella denticulata biozone (new) of southeastern Nevada18
- Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains8
- Kochiella Poulsen, 1927, and Hadrocephalites new genus (Trilobita: Ptychopariida) from the early middle Cambrian of western North America3
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Cambrian geology and paleontology, 3, fauna of the Mount Whyte Formation2
- Ptychoparid trilobites of the Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval, Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada1
- Middle Cambrian fossils from Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho1
Each of the 35 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 Hadrocephalites 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 Hadrocephalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hadrocephalites 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 itPtychopariacea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sundberg and McCollum 2002