Beggaspis spinicaudatum
No picture of Beggaspis spinicaudatum 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 Beggaspis spinicaudatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeggaspisPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- 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.
3 occurrences of Beggaspis spinicaudatum 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
3 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
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group3
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The named rock units Beggaspis spinicaudatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beggaspis spinicaudatum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Beggaspis spinicaudatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Calyptaulax annulata3 sites
- Cybeloides prima3 sites
- Dimeropyge clintonensis3 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis3 sites
- Sphaerexochus valcourensis3 sites
- <asaphid>2 sites
- <illaenid>2 sites
- Ceraurinella latipyga2 sites
- Physemataspis insularis2 sites
- Remopleurides canadensis2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe2 sites
- Acanthoparypha1 site
- Amphilichas minganensis1 site
- Apianurus narrawayi1 site
- Asaphidae1 site
- Ceratocephala triacantheis1 site
- Hemiarges amiculus1 site
- Illaenidae1 site
- Isotelus harrisi1 site
- Nieszkowskia satyrus1 site
- Phorocephala setoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Beggaspis spinicaudatum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referenceEach of the 3 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 Beggaspis spinicaudatum 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 Beggaspis spinicaudatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beggaspis spinicaudatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBeggaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shaw 1968)