Eurypterus cephalaspis

No picture of Eurypterus cephalaspis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Eurypterus cephalaspis itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurypterus cephalaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EurypterusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 4 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 4 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432.9 Mya422.7 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Eurypterus cephalaspis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Reservoir — 56.00°N, 3.00°WKirkby Moor Flags — 54.32°N, 2.75°WDownton Castle Sandstone — 52.37°N, 2.73°WTemeside Shale — 52.37°N, 2.73°W

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The named rock units Eurypterus cephalaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eurypterus cephalaspis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Eurypterus cephalaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eurypterus cephalaspis, 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 reference

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 Eurypterus cephalaspis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Eurypterus cephalaspis itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eurypterus cephalaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEurypterus through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1856