Exallaspis coronata

No picture of Exallaspis coronata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Exallaspis coronata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ExallaspisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 421.3 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426.7 Mya422.7 Mya433.4 Mya420.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Exallaspis coronata 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

3 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

2 formations

Middle Elton — 52.00°N, 4.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°W

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

Exallaspis coronata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Exallaspis coronata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Exallaspis coronata, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Exallaspis coronata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Exallaspis coronata, 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 itExallaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1853)