Scopelochasmops
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChasmopinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 457.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya.
8 occurrences of Scopelochasmops 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
8 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
6 formations
- Cwm Rhiwarth Formation2
- Pen-y-garnedd Formation2
- Vollen Formation1
- Gryazno Formation1
- Gelli-grîn Formation · Lower Bala Group1
- Dwyfach Formation1
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The named rock units Scopelochasmops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Scopelochasmops and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Scopelochasmops and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Deacybele pauca5 sites
- Howellites5 sites
- Sinuites5 sites
- Bicuspina4 sites
- Broeggerolithus4 sites
- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni4 sites
- Brongniartella4 sites
- Brongniartella minor4 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Crinoidea4 sites
- Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa4 sites
- Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi4 sites
- Kjaerina4 sites
- Kloucekia apiculata4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
- Conolichas3 sites
- Flexicalymene caractaci3 sites
- Flexicalymene planimarginata3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Otarion3 sites
- Platystrophia3 sites
- Sowerbyella3 sites
- Strophomenidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Scopelochasmops, 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
5 references- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales4
- Trilobite Biostratigraphy in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Western Leningrad Region1
- Mid-Caradoc magmatism in central Llyn, rhyolite petrogenesis, and the evolution of the Snowdonia volcanic corridor in NW Wales1
- The Diploporita of the Oslo region, Norway1
- The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Scopelochasmops 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 Scopelochasmops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scopelochasmops 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 itChasmopinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McNamara 1980