Frognaspis stoermeri
No picture of Frognaspis stoermeri 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 Frognaspis stoermeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FrognaspisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ityophoridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ityophoridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 449.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Frognaspis stoermeri 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
2 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 Frognaspis stoermeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Frognaspis stoermeri and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Frognaspis stoermeri and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Pseudosphaerexochus densigranulatus2 sites
- Stygina minor2 sites
- Amphitryon1 site
- Bronteopsis1 site
- Deacybele gracilis1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Diestoceras1 site
- Ephippiorthoceras frognoeyense1 site
- Flexicalymene1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Illaenus (Parillaenus) fallax1 site
- Lonchodomas pennatus1 site
- Miraspis1 site
- Paraharpes ottawaensis1 site
- Phillipsinella preclara1 site
- Phorocephala1 site
- Prionocheilus obtusus1 site
- Raymondella1 site
- Remopleurella1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Remopleurides inusitatus1 site
- Staurocephalus1 site
- Staurocephalus pilafrons1 site
- Telephina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Frognaspis stoermeri, 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- Late Caradoc-early Ashgill trilobites of the central Oslo Region, Norway1
- The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway. 18. Rare trilobites of the families Olenidae, Harpidae, Ityophoridae and Cheiruridae1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Frognaspis stoermeri 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 Frognaspis stoermeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Frognaspis stoermeri 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 itFrognaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikolaisen 1965