Uncaspis

Uncaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.

No picture of Uncaspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Uncaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CrepicephalidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Crepicephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 17 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497.5 Mya486.4 Mya

17 occurrences of Uncaspis 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

17 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

3 formations

Deadwood — 44.42°N, 103.71°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 44.28°N, 103.73°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.57°WDeadwood — 44.45°N, 104.42°WPilgrim — 44.66°N, 111.10°WDuNoir Limestone — 43.29°N, 109.83°W

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The named rock units Uncaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Uncaspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Uncaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Uncaspis, 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

4 references

Each of the 17 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 content0

No picture of Uncaspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Uncaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Uncaspis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCrepicephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1935