Talbotina

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LonchocephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lonchocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 497 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
10 occurrences of Talbotina 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
10 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
3 formations
- Petit Jardin Formation · Port Au Port Group7
- Pilgrim Formation1
- East Arm Formation1
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The named rock units Talbotina 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.
Talbotina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Talbotina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Menomonia4 sites
- Arapahoia3 sites
- Welleraspis3 sites
- Arapahoia raymondi2 sites
- Blountiella2 sites
- Bynumia2 sites
- Coosella2 sites
- Coosella helena2 sites
- Kingstonia2 sites
- Lecanopleura2 sites
- Maryvillia2 sites
- Terranovella2 sites
- Baltagnostus1 site
- Blountia terranovica1 site
- Cedaria1 site
- Cedarina1 site
- Coosia1 site
- Coosina kindlei1 site
- Dicellomus1 site
- Dicellomus nanus1 site
- Eocrinoidea1 site
- Holcacephalus1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Kormagnostus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Talbotina, 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
7 references- Cambrian Macrofossils from the Phillips Brook and North Brook Anticlines, Western Newfoundland2
- Recent developments in western Newfoundland Cambro-Ordovician trilobite Biostratigraphy2
- Middle and upper Cambrian Faunas from western Newfoundland2
- unpublished data1
- Upper Cambrian (Marjuman-Steptoean) trilobites from the Port Au Port Group, western Newfoundland1
- New Cambrian and Ordovician fossil localities in western Newfoundland1
- Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Levis Conglomerate1
Each of the 10 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
Media content1

Picture of Talbotina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Talbotina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLonchocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman 1938