Taenicephalites plerus

No picture of Taenicephalites plerus 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 Taenicephalites plerus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 3.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 494.2 Mya and 491 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCambrian494–494 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences494.7 Mya490.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Taenicephalites plerus 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

20 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

1 formation

Chatsworth — 22.00°S, 140.30°EChatsworth — 21.94°S, 140.33°EChatsworth — 21.95°S, 140.37°E

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

Taenicephalites plerus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Taenicephalites plerus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Taenicephalites plerus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 20 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 Taenicephalites plerus 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 Taenicephalites plerus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Taenicephalites plerus 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 itTaenicephalites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shergold 1980