Idiomesus levisensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IdiomesusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Idiomesus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
30 occurrences of Idiomesus levisensis 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
30 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
7 formations
- Signal Mountain Limestone Formation21
- Wilberns Formation · Moore Hollow Group3
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group2
- Levis Formation1
- Rabbitkettle Formation1
- Levis Conglomerate Formation1
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The named rock units Idiomesus levisensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Idiomesus levisensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Idiomesus levisensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Stenopilus latus10 sites
- Eurekia eos9 sites
- Euptychaspis kirki6 sites
- Rasettia wichitaensis5 sites
- Bynumina vescula4 sites
- Euptychaspis typicalis4 sites
- Bayfieldia simata3 sites
- Calvinella tenuisculpta3 sites
- Plethometopus obtusus3 sites
- Triarthropsis3 sites
- Acheilops masonensis2 sites
- Apatokephaloides clivosus2 sites
- Bayfieldia binodosa2 sites
- Dikelocephalus2 sites
- Euptychaspis jugalis2 sites
- Kathleenella frontalis2 sites
- Keithia2 sites
- Keithiella scrupulosa2 sites
- Leiocoryphe occipitalis2 sites
- Magnacephalus smilus2 sites
- Meniscocoryphe platycephala2 sites
- Monocheilus2 sites
- Raymondina respecta2 sites
- Saukia tumida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Idiomesus levisensis, 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- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom21
- The Moore Hollow Group of Central Texas3
- Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada2
- A Late Cambrian (Sunwaptan) Silicified Trilobite Fauna from Nevada1
- Sunwaptan and Ibexian (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) trilobites of the Rabbitkettle Formation, Mountain River region, northern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada1
- Additions to the Upper Cambrian fauna from the conglomerate boulders at Levis, Quebec1
- Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Levis Conglomerate1
Each of the 30 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 Idiomesus levisensis 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 Idiomesus levisensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Idiomesus levisensis 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 itIdiomesus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rasetti 1944)