Peltura

Peltura is a genus of trilobites from the Upper Cambrian. The type specimen of Peltura scarabaeoides, the type species of the genus, was discovered in the Alum Shale Formation of Sweden and first described by the Swedish naturalist Göran Wahlenberg in 1818. Species of this genus have now been found throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.

Peltura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlenidaePBDB
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 least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 493.6 Mya to 491 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 36 of 38 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 38 occurrencesOrdovician498–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 2 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 3 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493.6 Mya – 491 Mya497.5 Mya476.6 Mya

38 occurrences of Peltura 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

38 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

6 formations

Alum Shale — 59.76°N, 10.51°EAlum Shale — 59.91°N, 10.74°EAlum Shale — 60.03°N, 10.84°EAlum Shale — 59.90°N, 10.77°EAlum Shale — 59.73°N, 9.87°EAlum Shale — 58.59°N, 13.36°EAlum Shale — 58.55°N, 13.33°EAlum Shale — 58.43°N, 13.63°EAlum Shale — 60.98°N, 15.20°EAlum Shale — 58.55°N, 13.39°EKlonowka — 50.91°N, 20.79°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°EKlonowka Shale — 50.88°N, 20.95°EKistedal — 70.64°N, 28.00°E

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The named rock units Peltura 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.

Peltura and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Peltura and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Peltura, 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

13 references

Each of the 38 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. 1 further reference is 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

Media content1

Picture of Peltura

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Peltura 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOlenidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1840