Apollonaspis arga
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApollonaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Apollonaspis arga on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Apollonaspis arga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apollonaspis arga and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Apollonaspis arga and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Camerella2 sites
- Pleurorthis2 sites
- Acidiphorus1 site
- Acidiphorus kindlei1 site
- Acidiphorus rostratus1 site
- Apatolichas jukesi1 site
- Celmus1 site
- Ceratocephala exigua1 site
- Colobinion julius1 site
- Cuparius1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Ectenonotus1 site
- Glaphurus divisus1 site
- Harpillaenus arcuatus1 site
- Heliomera albata1 site
- Heliomeroides1 site
- Idiorhapha solitaria1 site
- Idiostrophia1 site
- Illaenus1 site
- Illaenus bucculentus1 site
- Illaenus consobrinus1 site
- Illaenus oscitatus1 site
- Illaenus spiculatus1 site
- Illaenus tumidifrons1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Apollonaspis arga, 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
2 references- Fossils from the Ordovician bioherm at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada1
- Middle Ordovician trilobites from Lower Head, western Newfoundland1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Apollonaspis arga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Apollonaspis arga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apollonaspis arga 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 itApollonaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whittington 1963)