Turgicephalus falcatus
No picture of Turgicephalus falcatus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Turgicephalus falcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Raymondaspis (Turgicephalus)PBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Turgicephalus falcatus 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Turgicephalus falcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turgicephalus falcatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Turgicephalus falcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Ampyx toxotis1 site
- Ampyxoides inermis1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Carolinites ekphymosus1 site
- Carolinites killaryensis1 site
- Cybelurus brutoni1 site
- Evropeites hyperboreus1 site
- Globampyx trinucleoides1 site
- Harebayaspis jacquelinae1 site
- Hypermecaspis brevifrons1 site
- Nileus orbiculatoides svalbardensis1 site
- Oenonella paulula1 site
- Peraspis erugata1 site
- Periodon1 site
- Poronileus fistulosus1 site
- Porterfieldia parapunctata1 site
- Rhombampyx tragula1 site
- Robergiella lundehukensis1 site
- Shumardia acuticaudata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Turgicephalus falcatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Turgicephalus falcatus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Turgicephalus falcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turgicephalus falcatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itRaymondaspis (Turgicephalus) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1980