Sphaerexochus latifrons

Sphaerexochus latifrons

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 1.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 425 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurian427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427.2 Mya424.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Sphaerexochus latifrons on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

3 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

3 formations

Hemse — 57.23°N, 18.37°EHemse Beds — 57.23°N, 18.37°EKlinteberg Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°E

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The named rock units Sphaerexochus latifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sphaerexochus latifrons and its relatives

Silurian

Where Sphaerexochus latifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sphaerexochus latifrons, 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 reference

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Sphaerexochus latifrons

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sphaerexochus latifrons 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 itSphaerexochus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1854