Onchonotellus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatillicephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 491 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
54 occurrences of Onchonotellus 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
54 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
15 formations
- Zhumabai Formation14
- Bestogai Formation11
- Huaqiao Formation6
- Siyangshan Formation4
- Diringde Reef Massif Formation3
- Tingziguan Formation2
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The named rock units Onchonotellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Onchonotellus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Onchonotellus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Buttsia2 sites
- Modocia2 sites
- Pseudagnostus2 sites
- Acrocephalites1 site
- Agnostus1 site
- Ajrikina1 site
- Ammagnostus1 site
- Aplexura1 site
- Baltagnostus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Buttsia parvula1 site
- Catuniella lauta1 site
- Cermatops1 site
- Charchaqia halli1 site
- Connagnostus1 site
- Corynexochus1 site
- Corynexochus terminalis n. sp.1 site
- Costipelagiella zazvorkai1 site
- Cotalagnostus1 site
- Dolicholeptus ansatus1 site
- Dolichometopus1 site
- Dorispira accordionata1 site
- Dorypyge aff. tenella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Onchonotellus, 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
17 references- Cambrian Malyy Karatau Range, Kazakhstan25
- Upper Cambrian biostratigraphy and trilobite faunas of the Cili-Taoyuan area, northwestern Hunan, China5
- Evolution of trilobite biofacies in Cambrian basins of the Siberian Platform3
- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang3
- Miaolingian (Cambrian) agnostids and trilobites from the Cobb Valley area, South Island, New Zealand2
- The Khos-Nelege section of the Ogon'or Formation: a potential candidate for the GSSP of stage 10, Cambrian System2
- The Upper Cambrian of the Chopko River section, Norilsk region, northwestern Siberian Platform: stratigraphy and trilobites2
- Middle and Upper Cambrian polymerid trilobites and biostratigraphy, Fenghuang area, western Hunan Province, China2
- Biostratigrafiya i trilobity verkhnego Kembriya i nizhnego Ordovika severo-zapada Sibirskoy Platformy [Biostratigraphy and trilobites of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the northwestern Siberian platform]2
- Corynexochida, Lichida and Asaphida1
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China1
- Late Late Cambrian trilobites from near Birch Inlet, south-western Tasmania1
Each of the 54 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Onchonotellus 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 Onchonotellus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onchonotellus 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 itCatillicephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lermontova 1956