Auchenaspis salteri
No picture of Auchenaspis salteri 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 Auchenaspis salteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AuchenaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Auchenaspis salteri on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Auchenaspis salteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Auchenaspis salteri and its relatives
SilurianWhere Auchenaspis salteri and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Erettopterus2 sites
- Hemicyclaspis murchisoni2 sites
- Lingulidae2 sites
- Acanthodii1 site
- Aplysiida1 site
- Auchenaspis egertoni1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Didymaspis grindrodi1 site
- Dolichopterus1 site
- Erettopterus spatulatus1 site
- Eurypterus cephalaspis1 site
- Hemicyclaspis lightbodii1 site
- Hughmilleria1 site
- Loganellia1 site
- Mixopterus1 site
- Nanahughmilleria1 site
- Onchus murchisoni1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Parahughmilleria salteri1 site
- Plectrodus mirabilis1 site
- Pterygotus1 site
- Salteropterus1 site
- Tarsopterella1 site
- Thelodontiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Auchenaspis salteri, 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- Late Silurian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders1
- Palichthyologic notes. 9. On some fish remains from the neighbourhood of Ludlow1
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 Auchenaspis salteri 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 Auchenaspis salteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Auchenaspis salteri 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 itAuchenaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1857