Gerastos kermur

Gerastos kermur

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GerastosPBDB
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 2.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

3 occurrences of Gerastos kermur 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

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

Koneprusy — 49.92°N, 14.07°EKoneprusy Limestone — 49.92°N, 14.07°E

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The named rock units Gerastos kermur 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.

Gerastos kermur and its relatives

Devonian

Where Gerastos kermur and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gerastos kermur, 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

Media content1

Picture of Gerastos kermur

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itGerastos through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Šnajdr 1980)