Africanaspis edmountaini
No picture of Africanaspis edmountaini 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 Africanaspis edmountaini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AfricanaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Africanaspis edmountaini on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
- Witpoort Formation · Witteberg Group1
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The named rock units Africanaspis edmountaini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Africanaspis edmountaini and its relatives
DevonianWhere Africanaspis edmountaini and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Acanthodidae1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Africanaspis doryssa1 site
- Andreyevichthys1 site
- Antarctilamna ultima1 site
- Bothriolepis africana1 site
- Diplacanthidae1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis1 site
- Groenlandaspis riniensis1 site
- Gyracanthides1 site
- Gyracanthides riniensis1 site
- Hyneria1 site
- Onychodontiformes1 site
- Osteolepiformes1 site
- Petromyzontiformes1 site
- Phlyctaeniidae1 site
- Plesioselachus macracanthus1 site
- Priscomyzon riniensis1 site
- Ptyctodontida1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Serenichthys kowiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Africanaspis edmountaini, 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 Africanaspis edmountaini 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 Africanaspis edmountaini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Africanaspis edmountaini 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 itAfricanaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gess and Trinajstic 2017