Quebecaspis marylandica
No picture of Quebecaspis marylandica 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 Quebecaspis marylandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- QuebecaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lonchocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Quebecaspis marylandica 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Quebecaspis marylandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Quebecaspis marylandica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Quebecaspis marylandica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Taenicephalites macrops3 sites
- Acmarhachis acuta2 sites
- Glyptometopsis tumida2 sites
- Pseudagnostus communis2 sites
- Pterocephalops acrophthalma2 sites
- Quebecaspis conifrons2 sites
- Bathyholcus gaspensis1 site
- Bellaspis1 site
- Bigranulella1 site
- Dunderbergia1 site
- Dunderbergia simplex1 site
- Dunderbergia variagranula1 site
- Glyptometopsis marginata1 site
- Homagnostus1 site
- Olenaspella1 site
- Oligometopus1 site
- Pterocephalops1 site
- Punctaspis1 site
- Tholifrons1 site
- Trilobita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Quebecaspis marylandica, 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- Dresbachian and Franconian trilobites of the Conococheague and Frederick Limestones of the central Appalachians2
- Esmeraldina rowei and associated Lower Cambrian trilobites (1f fauna) at the base of Walcott's Waucoban Series, southern Great Basin, U.S.A.1
Each of the 3 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 Quebecaspis marylandica 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 Quebecaspis marylandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Quebecaspis marylandica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itQuebecaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1961