Phacops circumspectans

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya365.2 Mya388.5 Mya358.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Phacops circumspectans on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

2 formations

Cabezo Agudo — 41.13°N, 1.07°WEtroeungt — 51.27°N, 7.18°E

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The named rock units Phacops circumspectans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Phacops circumspectans and its relatives

Devonian

Where Phacops circumspectans and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Phacops circumspectans, 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

2 references

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Phacops circumspectans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phacops circumspectans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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What may have been alongside itPhacops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paeckelmann 1913