Curiaspis
No picture of Curiaspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Curiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrilobitaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Curiaspis 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
1 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
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The named rock units Curiaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Curiaspis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Curiaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Acrotreta1 site
- Apatokephalus asarkus1 site
- Celdometopus klouceki1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Diceratopyge1 site
- Dikelokephalina1 site
- Echinosphaerites1 site
- Eulomina mitratum1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Harpides grimmi1 site
- Hemibarrandia holoubkovensis1 site
- Holoubkovia klouceki1 site
- Holubaspis perneri1 site
- Hyperobolus1 site
- Jivinella1 site
- Jivinella slaviki1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
- Leimitzia1 site
- Lingulella insons1 site
- Macrocystella greylingi1 site
- Niobe (Niobella)1 site
- Orbiculoidea sodalis sodalis1 site
- Orbithele1 site
- Orbithele undulosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Curiaspis, 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 content0
No picture of Curiaspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Curiaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Curiaspis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTrilobita through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sdzuy 1955