Destombesina
No picture of Destombesina 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 Destombesina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsteropyginaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Acastidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Destombesina on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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 Destombesina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Destombesina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Destombesina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acanthopyge1 site
- Asteropyge (Comura)1 site
- Ceratocephala1 site
- Cornuproetus1 site
- Cyphaspides ammari1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Eremiproetus1 site
- Gerastos1 site
- Hollardops mesocristata1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Morocops1 site
- Morocops granulops1 site
- Orbitoproetus1 site
- Pinnuloharpes hamarlaghdadensis1 site
- Psychopyge elegans1 site
- Scabriscutellum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Destombesina, 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
2 references- Pelmatozoan “rooting grounds” from the Early Devonian (late Emsian) Heckelmann Mill Fossil‑Lagerstätte (Lahn Syncline, Rhineland‑Palatinate, SW‑Germany): morphological, palaeoenvironmental and taphonomic aspects1
- Trilobites from the Red Fauna (latest Emsian, Devonian) of Hamar Laghdad, Morocco and their biodiversity1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Destombesina 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 Destombesina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Destombesina 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 itAsteropyginae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morzadec 1997