Aphelaspis

Aphelaspis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 495.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 149 of 149 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 149 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 13 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 27 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 27 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 27 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 21 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 7 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 3 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences497 Mya – 495.2 Mya507 Mya486.4 Mya

149 occurrences of Aphelaspis 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

149 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

25 formations

Riley — 30.64°N, 99.26°WRiley — 30.92°N, 98.61°WRiley — 30.84°N, 98.34°WRiley — 30.91°N, 99.00°WRiley — 30.76°N, 99.41°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.49°N, 98.52°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.37°WRiley — 30.62°N, 98.51°WRiley — 30.90°N, 98.43°WNolichucky — 36.75°N, 82.25°WNolichucky — 36.31°N, 83.60°WNolichucky — 36.21°N, 83.28°WNolichucky — 36.03°N, 84.08°WNolichucky — 36.05°N, 83.50°WNolichucky — 36.22°N, 83.40°WNolichucky — 36.69°N, 82.80°WNolichucky — 36.04°N, 83.59°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 44.28°N, 103.73°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.57°WDeadwood — 44.07°N, 103.22°WDeadwood — 44.22°N, 103.60°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WRabbitkettle — 63.37°N, 128.60°WOrr — 38.80°N, 113.35°WOrr — 38.70°N, 113.44°WOrr — 39.74°N, 113.41°WOrr — 38.54°N, 113.54°WNounan — 41.90°N, 111.70°WNopah — 40.00°N, 115.00°WNopah — 39.00°N, 115.00°WPilgrim — 46.01°N, 112.54°WPilgrim — 45.93°N, 111.48°WHuaqiao — 28.05°N, 109.42°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EKul'bich — 51.97°N, 85.97°EDunderberg — 39.40°N, 114.78°WDry Creek Shale — 42.60°N, 109.20°WConasauga — 34.00°N, 86.00°WLincoln Peak — 38.87°N, 114.32°WGeorgina Limestone — 23.05°S, 138.95°EWoods Hollow Boulders — 30.20°N, 103.24°WSinging Creek — 43.00°S, 147.00°EUnit H — 49.67°N, 115.35°WDunderburg — 39.43°N, 114.74°WSwarbrick — 38.00°N, 116.00°WDunderberg Shale — 39.97°N, 114.88°WMendha — 37.15°N, 116.00°WEmigrant — 37.62°N, 117.20°WValtorres — 41.30°N, 1.76°W

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The named rock units Aphelaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphelaspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Aphelaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Aphelaspis, 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

27 references

Each of the 149 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 Aphelaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphelaspis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1935