Selenopeltis

Selenopeltis is an extinct genus of odontopleurid trilobites in the family Odontopleuridae.

A picture published with the record for Selenopeltis.

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 75 occurrencesOrdovician — about 74 of 75 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 75 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 5 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 26 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 5 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 4 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences477.1 Mya440.5 Mya488 Mya438 Mya

75 occurrences of Selenopeltis 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

75 occurrences

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

37 formations

Liben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.74°N, 13.54°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°ELlanfallteg — 52.00°N, 5.00°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.67°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.77°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.90°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.38°EUpper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 5.50°WAndouillé — 48.18°N, 0.79°WIzegguirene — 30.57°N, 5.99°WIzegguirene — 31.33°N, 4.53°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WPizarras Guindo — 38.62°N, 3.68°WValongo — 41.00°N, 8.00°WSan Marcos — 40.93°N, 2.05°WSan Marcos — 40.72°N, 1.55°WMytton Flags and Tankerville — 53.00°N, 3.00°WPontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WZelkovice — 50.01°N, 14.09°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EPostolonnec — 48.00°N, 4.00°WCabeco do Peao — 39.00°N, 8.00°WSchistes à nodules — 48.00°N, 1.00°WTraveusot — 48.00°N, 2.00°WValle Syncline Green and Nodular Shales — 38.00°N, 6.00°W

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The named rock units Selenopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Selenopeltis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Selenopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

856 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Selenopeltis, 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

38 references

Each of the 75 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. 26 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Selenopeltis

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
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The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847