Phacops latifrons

Phacops latifrons

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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 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 390.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Devonian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–388 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393.47 Mya390.5 Mya400 Mya387.4 Mya

9 occurrences of Phacops latifrons 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

9 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

5 formations

Junkerberg — 50.22°N, 6.67°EJunkerberg — 50.25°N, 6.67°EUnnenberg — 51.28°N, 7.68°EUnnenberg — 51.28°N, 8.08°ELambertenghi — 46.50°N, 13.00°EJemelle — 50.07°N, 4.61°EFreilingen — 50.25°N, 6.67°E

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

Phacops latifrons and its relatives

Devonian

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

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Phacops latifrons, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content2

Picture of Phacops latifrons

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPhacops through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bronn 1825)