Asgardaspira norvegica

No picture of Asgardaspira norvegica 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 Asgardaspira norvegica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsgardaspiraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Asgardaspira
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Asgardaspira
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Asgardaspira
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.4 Mya to 451.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 464.3 Mya to 449.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician465–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.4 Mya451.8 Mya464.8 Mya449.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Asgardaspira norvegica 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

4 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

2 formations

Elnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.17°EElnes — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvang — 59.89°N, 10.69°E

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The named rock units Asgardaspira norvegica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Asgardaspira norvegica and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Asgardaspira norvegica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Asgardaspira norvegica, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 Asgardaspira norvegica 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 Asgardaspira norvegica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Asgardaspira norvegica 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 itAsgardaspira through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken and Perner 1925)