Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus

No picture of Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus 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 Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OvalocephalusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 454 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 7 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454.5 Mya442.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus 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

7 occurrences

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

3 formations

Domusnovas — 40.34°N, 8.69°ECystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WSort Tepe — 37.28°N, 43.56°E

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The named rock units Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus 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 Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus 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.

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What may have been alongside itOvalocephalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan 1960