Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudosphaerexochusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pseudosphaerexochus
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Arthrorhachis tarda1 site
- Cybeloides loveni1 site
- Dindymene ornata1 site
- Hadromeros subulatus1 site
- Oedicybele kingi1 site
- Ogmocnemis irregularis1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) parallelus1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) wolkae1 site
- Pseudosphaerexochus laticeps1 site
- Sphaeragnostus cingulatus1 site
- Sphaerexochinae1 site
- Sphaerocoryphe dentata1 site
- Staurocephalus clavifrons1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius 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 Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudosphaerexochus (Pseudosphaerexochus) dubius 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 itPseudosphaerexochus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 1991