Hypermecaspis bulmani
No picture of Hypermecaspis bulmani 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 Hypermecaspis bulmani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypermecaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hypermecaspis bulmani 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
2 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
- Coroico Formation1
- Table Cove Formation · Table Head Group1
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The named rock units Hypermecaspis bulmani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypermecaspis bulmani and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hypermecaspis bulmani and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- <cybelinid>1 site
- Ampyxoides semicostatus1 site
- Blosyropsis billingsi1 site
- Celmus1 site
- Ceraurinella polydorus1 site
- Cybelurus mirus1 site
- Galbagnostus galba1 site
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) longicollis1 site
- Geragnostus fabius1 site
- Goniophrys1 site
- Harpides atlanticus1 site
- Heliomeroides teres1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Illaenus consimilis1 site
- Illaenus gelasinus1 site
- Ischyrophyma tumida1 site
- Leioshumardia minima1 site
- Lonchodomas clavulus1 site
- Lonchodomas normalis1 site
- Nileus affinis1 site
- Nileus macrops1 site
- Niobe morrisi1 site
- Niobe quadraticaudata1 site
- Peraspis lineolata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypermecaspis bulmani, 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- A phylogenetic approach to the study of the evolution of Hypermecaspididae (Olenida, Trilobita)1
- Trilobites of the Ordovician Table Head Formation, western Newfoundland1
Each of the 2 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 Hypermecaspis bulmani 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 Hypermecaspis bulmani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypermecaspis bulmani 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 itHypermecaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington and Leanza 1957