Clappaspis idahoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EhmaniellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Ehmaniella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ehmaniella
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ehmaniella
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Alokistocaridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Clappaspis idahoensis 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Clappaspis idahoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clappaspis idahoensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Clappaspis idahoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Acrothele affinis1 site
- Acrotreta definita1 site
- Acrotreta levata1 site
- Alokistocare septum1 site
- Alokistocare spencense1 site
- Alokistocarella spencei1 site
- Amecephalus idahoense1 site
- Amecephalus laticaudum1 site
- Archaeocyathus1 site
- Athabaskia bithus1 site
- Bathyuriscus (Poliella) anteros1 site
- Bathyuriscus (Poliella) caranus1 site
- Bathyuriscus atossa1 site
- Bythicheilus alveatum1 site
- Bythicheilus typicum1 site
- Chancia1 site
- Chancia angusta1 site
- Clappaspis coriacea1 site
- Clappaspis dotis1 site
- Clappaspis lanata1 site
- Clappaspis spencei1 site
- Elrathia1 site
- Elrathia rara1 site
- Elrathia spencei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Clappaspis idahoensis, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Clappaspis idahoensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Clappaspis idahoensis 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 itEhmaniella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1939