Aiaiaspis
No picture of Aiaiaspis 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 Aiaiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SolenopleuridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Solenopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aiaiaspis 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Aiaiaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aiaiaspis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Aiaiaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aldanaspis1 site
- Anomocarina splendens1 site
- Belovia1 site
- Dasometopus breviceps1 site
- Hypagnostus1 site
- Koldinia1 site
- Kuraspis1 site
- Lejopyge armata1 site
- Lejopyge laevigatus1 site
- Maiaspis quadrata1 site
- Oidalagnostus1 site
- Opsidiscus bilobatus1 site
- Paraorlovia1 site
- Pianaspis attenuata1 site
- Plethopeltoides1 site
- Shoriella opata1 site
- Solenopleura1 site
- Tomagnostella sulcifera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aiaiaspis, 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 Aiaiaspis 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 Aiaiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aiaiaspis 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 itSolenopleuridae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nazarov 1973