Hanyangaspis

Philippe Janvier · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- HanyangaspididaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
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 438.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
11 occurrences of Hanyangaspis 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
11 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
6 formations
- Yimugantawu Formation4
- Tataaiertage Formation3
- Wujiahe Formation1
- Shamao Formation1
- Fentou Formation1
- Guodingshan Formation1
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The named rock units Hanyangaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hanyangaspis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Hanyangaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Hanyangaspis, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Silurian vertebrate assemblages of China6
- Early Silurian chondrichthyans from the Tarim Basin (Xinjiang, China)5
Each of the 11 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 Hanyangaspis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Philippe Janvier
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hanyangaspis 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 itHanyangaspididae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pan and Liu 1975