Anglaspis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnglaspidinaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Anglaspis 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
13 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
7 formations
- Ben Nevis Formation4
- Fraenkelryggen Formation3
- Pod''emnaya Formation2
- Lievin Formation · Lievin Group1
- Snowblind Formation1
- Psammosteus Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Anglaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anglaspis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Anglaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Cephalaspis5 sites
- Corvaspis5 sites
- Poraspis5 sites
- Homalaspidella4 sites
- Nikolivia elongata4 sites
- Nostolepis4 sites
- Turinia pagei4 sites
- Boreania minima3 sites
- Machairaspis3 sites
- Nikolivia depressa3 sites
- Protopteraspis3 sites
- Traquairaspis3 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Canonia grossi2 sites
- Ctenaspis2 sites
- Ctenaspis dentata2 sites
- Dinaspidella2 sites
- Hoelaspis angulata2 sites
- Lepidaspis2 sites
- Nikolivia gutta2 sites
- Pattenaspis2 sites
- Pattenaspis acuminata2 sites
- Poraspis polaris2 sites
- Protopteraspis gosseleti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Anglaspis, 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
7 references- The vertebrate stratigraphy of the Lower Devonian (Red Bay Group and Wood Bay Formation) of Spitsbergen5
- Upper Silurian and Devonian heterostracan pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): a preliminary report with biogeographical and biostratigraphical implications2
- Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids2
- Protopteraspis Gosseleti (Vertebrata: Pteraspidomorphi: Heterostraci) from the Lower Devonian of Shropshire, England1
- The Downtonian and Devonian vertebrates of Spitsbergen. XV* New Heterostracans from the Lower Devonian Red Bay Group, northern Spitsbergen1
- A new agnathan from the lower Devonian of Arctic Canada, and a review of the tessellated heterostracans1
- The cyathaspids of the Red Bay Group (Lower Devonian) of Spitsbergen1
Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Anglaspis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itAnglaspidinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.