Japonoscutellum

No picture of Japonoscutellum 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 Japonoscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StyginidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 7 occurrencesSilurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440.5 Mya426.7 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Japonoscutellum 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

7 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

3 formations

Fukata — 33.53°N, 133.22°EArndell Sandstone — 42.65°S, 146.50°EWeiba — 27.62°N, 104.82°E

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

Japonoscutellum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Japonoscutellum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Japonoscutellum, 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

6 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Japonoscutellum 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 Japonoscutellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Japonoscutellum 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 itStyginidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Přibyl and Vaněk 1971