Gerastos tuberculatus
No picture of Gerastos tuberculatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gerastos tuberculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Gerastos tuberculatus 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
7 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
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The named rock units Gerastos tuberculatus 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 tuberculatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gerastos tuberculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Austerops menchikoffi4 sites
- Cyphaspis hamidi3 sites
- Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) docekali2 sites
- Alberticoryphe2 sites
- Astycoryphe celox2 sites
- Austerops speculator2 sites
- Buchiproetus complanatus2 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Cornuproetus curtus2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Crotalocephalina2 sites
- Crotalocephalus2 sites
- Cyphaspides2 sites
- Cystoidea2 sites
- Dalejeproetus serus2 sites
- Eremiproetus2 sites
- Eremiproetus dufresnoyi2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Geesops fabrei2 sites
- Gerastos confragosus2 sites
- Goniatitida2 sites
- Harpes reticulatus2 sites
- Hollardops mesocristata2 sites
- Icriodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gerastos tuberculatus, 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
4 references- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species3
- A trilobite faunule from the Lower Devonian of the Saoura Valley, Algeria: biodiversity, morphological variability and palaeobiogeographical affinities2
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments1
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages1
Each of the 7 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 Gerastos tuberculatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Gerastos tuberculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gerastos tuberculatus 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 itGerastos through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1846)