Semisphaerocephalus latus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SemisphaerocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Semisphaerocephalus latus 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Semisphaerocephalus latus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Semisphaerocephalus latus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Semisphaerocephalus latus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Prohedinia2 sites
- Bathyuriscus punctatus1 site
- Bolaspidella1 site
- Dorypyge1 site
- Elrathia1 site
- Itagnostus gaspensis1 site
- Kootenia serrata1 site
- Marjumia transversa1 site
- Modocia1 site
- Ptychagnostus (Ptychagnostus) puncturosus affinis1 site
- Spencella1 site
- Spencella montanensis1 site
- Trilobita1 site
- Zacanthoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Semisphaerocephalus latus, 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.
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No picture of Semisphaerocephalus latus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Semisphaerocephalus latus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSemisphaerocephalus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1968