Staurocephalus murchisoni

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesSilurian453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences445.2 Mya430.6 Mya453.3 Mya426.2 Mya

9 occurrences of Staurocephalus murchisoni 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

9 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

2 formations

Motol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°W

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The named rock units Staurocephalus murchisoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Staurocephalus murchisoni and its relatives

Silurian

Where Staurocephalus murchisoni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Staurocephalus murchisoni, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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

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No picture of Staurocephalus murchisoni 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 Staurocephalus murchisoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Staurocephalus murchisoni 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 itStaurocephalus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1846