Erbenaspis erbeni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErbenaspisPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Erbenaspis erbeni 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
4 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
4 formations
- Mason Porcus Formation1
- Hossei Beds Formation1
- Ben Slimane Kalkknollen Formation1
- Saheb el Djir Formation1
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The named rock units Erbenaspis erbeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Erbenaspis erbeni and its relatives
DevonianWhere Erbenaspis erbeni and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Paranowakia4 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Afrops1 site
- Boeckops slimanensis1 site
- Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina)1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Crotalocephalina chlupaci1 site
- Crotalocephalus meridianus1 site
- Denckmannites1 site
- Denckmannites miser1 site
- Eopiriproetus grossi1 site
- Erbenaspis cicatricosa1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Harpes1 site
- Harpidella schrieli1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Lepidoproetus lepidus1 site
- Monograptus1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Odontochile1 site
- Otarionella1 site
- Phacops maurusius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Erbenaspis erbeni, 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
3 references- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter-und Mittel-devons IV2
- Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia1
- Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II.1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Erbenaspis erbeni 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 Erbenaspis erbeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erbenaspis erbeni 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.
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What may have been alongside itErbenaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alberti 1970