Acernaspis (Eskaspis)

No picture of Acernaspis (Eskaspis) 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 Acernaspis (Eskaspis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 11 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440.5 Mya – 438.6 Mya450 Mya432.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Acernaspis (Eskaspis) on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

11 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

6 formations

Wether Law Linn — 55.81°N, 3.37°WCock Rig — 55.81°N, 3.36°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWood Burn — 55.26°N, 4.77°WWood Burn Grits — 55.25°N, 4.76°WVtorye Utyosy — 51.23°N, 84.79°E

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

Acernaspis (Eskaspis) and its relatives

Silurian

Where Acernaspis (Eskaspis) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Acernaspis (Eskaspis), 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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

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No picture of Acernaspis (Eskaspis) 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 Acernaspis (Eskaspis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Acernaspis (Eskaspis) 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAcernaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clarkson et al. 1977