Richardsonella megalops
No picture of Richardsonella megalops was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Richardsonella megalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RichardsonellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Richardsonella megalops 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
1 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.
Richardsonella megalops and its relatives
CambrianWhere Richardsonella megalops and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Apatokephaloides pauper1 site
- Bienvillia corax1 site
- Elkanaspis cristata1 site
- Heterocaryon tuberculatum1 site
- Hungaia magnifica1 site
- Keithia1 site
- Keithiella cylindrica1 site
- Lauzonella planifrons1 site
- Levisella1 site
- Litagnostus levisensis1 site
- Loganellus belli1 site
- Loganopeltoides zenkeri1 site
- Onchonotus nasutus1 site
- Platycolpus dubius1 site
- Pseudagnostus canadensis1 site
- Pseudagnostus gyps1 site
- Ptychopleurites dunbari1 site
- Richardsonella convexa1 site
- Tatonaspis levisensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Richardsonella megalops, 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 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Richardsonella megalops was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Richardsonella megalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Richardsonella megalops 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 itRichardsonella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)