Thysanopeltis

Thysanopeltis is a genus of trilobite that lived from the Early to the Middle Devonian. Its remains have been found in Africa and Europe.

Thysanopeltis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StyginidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesDevonian411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences411.1 Mya387.4 Mya

18 occurrences of Thysanopeltis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

18 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

10 formations

Stinava-Chabicov — 50.00°N, 17.00°EStinava-Chabicov — 49.00°N, 17.00°EChotec — 50.08°N, 14.43°EChotec — 49.50°N, 14.33°EChotec Limestone — 49.92°N, 14.07°ERahal Shale — 34.03°N, 6.85°WKess Kess — 31.75°N, 4.50°WAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WTimrhanrhart — 29.70°N, 6.70°WChefar el Ahmar — 30.07°N, 2.23°WStyliolinenkalke — 51.97°N, 11.18°EBicken-Ense — 50.60°N, 8.25°E

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The named rock units Thysanopeltis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thysanopeltis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thysanopeltis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

223 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Thysanopeltis, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 Thysanopeltis

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Thysanopeltis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itStyginidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)