Trapezovitus
No picture of Trapezovitus 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 Trapezovitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulcavitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 521 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 516 Mya.
2 occurrences of Trapezovitus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Trapezovitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trapezovitus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Trapezovitus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Allatheca degeeri1 site
- Atdabanithes curvatus1 site
- Coleoloides1 site
- Delgadella1 site
- Doliutus1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Lapworthella1 site
- Linevitus1 site
- Olenellidae1 site
- Orthotheca1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Platysolenites antiquissimus1 site
- Protoleninae1 site
- Sabellitides sp.1 site
- Tetratheca1 site
- Triangulaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Trapezovitus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Jednostki litostratygraficzne kambru i gornego prekambru Gor Swietokrzyskich [Cambrian and Upper Precambrian lithostratigraphic units in the Holy Cross Mountains]1
- Lower Cambrian hyoliths of the Siberian Platform1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Trapezovitus 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 Trapezovitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trapezovitus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSulcavitidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Syssoiev 1958