Hypermecaspis kolouros
No picture of Hypermecaspis kolouros 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 kolouros, 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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Hypermecaspis kolouros 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
1 formation
- Goodwin Formation · Pogonip Group2
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The named rock units Hypermecaspis kolouros has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypermecaspis kolouros and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Hypermecaspis kolouros and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Parabolinella hecuba2 sites
- Asaphellus riojanus1 site
- Diplapatokephalus finalis1 site
- Eorobergia1 site
- Genalaticurus genalatus1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Hillyardina1 site
- Leiostegium goodwinensis1 site
- Nanorthis hamburgensis1 site
- Niobe (Niobella)1 site
- Parabolinella1 site
- Politicurus politus1 site
- Protopresbynileus willdeni1 site
- Rossaspis1 site
- Shumardia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hypermecaspis kolouros, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 kolouros 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 kolouros, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypermecaspis kolouros 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 itHypermecaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ross 1970