Rhombampyx glaber
No picture of Rhombampyx glaber 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 Rhombampyx glaber, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhombampyxPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Raphiophoridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhombampyx glaber 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rhombampyx glaber has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhombampyx glaber and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rhombampyx glaber and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Cyclopyge4 sites
- Cyrtometopus4 sites
- Geragnostus4 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspis) polyphemus4 sites
- Nileus orbiculatoides4 sites
- Niobe (Niobella) imparilimbata4 sites
- Ptychopyge4 sites
- Symphysurus4 sites
- Lonchodomas tenuis3 sites
- Nileus depressus3 sites
- Raymondaspis (Turgicephalus) neglecta3 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspis) limbata2 sites
- Nileus2 sites
- Nileus exarmatus2 sites
- Nileus planiceps2 sites
- Raymondaspis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhombampyx glaber, 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 4 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 Rhombampyx glaber 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 Rhombampyx glaber, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhombampyx glaber 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 itRhombampyx through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poulsen 1965)