Symphysops armatus
No picture of Symphysops armatus 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 Symphysops armatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SymphysopsPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Symphysops armatus 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Symphysops armatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Symphysops armatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Symphysops armatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Cyclopyge6 sites
- Nankinolithus granulatus6 sites
- Illaenus angelini5 sites
- Arthrorhachis tarda4 sites
- Christiania nilssoni4 sites
- Dedzetina serpaglii4 sites
- Jezercia ostiaria4 sites
- Shumardia extensa4 sites
- Amphitryon3 sites
- Foliomena folium3 sites
- Hibbertia3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) fecunda3 sites
- Paraphillipsinella3 sites
- Ulugtella3 sites
- ? Parapyxion fugax2 sites
- ? Paraschmidtella densipunctata2 sites
- "Beyrichia" barbara2 sites
- "Cytheropsis" derelicta2 sites
- "Entomozoe" rara2 sites
- "Gomphoceras" primus2 sites
- "Orthoceras" expectans2 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Amphitryon murchisonii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Symphysops armatus, 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
4 references- Trilobites of the post-Sardic (Upper Ordovician) sequence of southern Sardinia. Part I4
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Outline of the post-Sardic Ordovician sequence in south-westem Sardinia1
- Lithostratigraphic units and biostratigraphy of the post-sardic Ordovician sequence in south-west Sardinia1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Symphysops armatus 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 Symphysops armatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Symphysops armatus 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 itSymphysops through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1872)