Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus

Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus

Öpik, Armin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
Toxochasmops (Schmidtops)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pterygometopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 453.9 Mya and 449.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 15 of 15 occurrencesOrdovician454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454.4 Mya449.4 Mya

15 occurrences of Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus 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

15 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

Kahula — 59.35°N, 24.56°EKahula — 59.38°N, 26.40°EKahula — 59.38°N, 24.41°EKahula — 59.35°N, 27.40°EKahula — 59.29°N, 24.12°EKahula — 59.34°N, 24.39°EKahula — 59.48°N, 26.15°EKahula — 59.39°N, 27.36°EKahula — 59.37°N, 24.50°EKahula — 59.23°N, 23.52°EKahula — 59.31°N, 26.96°EKahula — 59.32°N, 24.51°E

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The named rock units Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus, 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 15 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Öpik, Armin
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus 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 itToxochasmops (Schmidtops) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roomusoks 1998