Acernaspis nanus

No picture of Acernaspis nanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acernaspis nanus, 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 most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 1 occurrenceSilurian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya432.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Acernaspis nanus 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

1 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.

Acernaspis nanus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Acernaspis nanus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acernaspis nanus, 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 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 Acernaspis nanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acernaspis nanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Maksimova 1962)