Kiaeraspis
No picture of Kiaeraspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kiaeraspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KiaeraspididaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Kiaeraspis 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- 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kiaeraspis 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.
Kiaeraspis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Kiaeraspis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Cephalaspis2 sites
- Ctenaspis dentata2 sites
- Doryaspis2 sites
- Hoelaspis angulata2 sites
- Homalaspidella2 sites
- Mimetaspis2 sites
- Protopteraspis2 sites
- Acanthodii1 site
- Althaspis leachi1 site
- Anglaspis1 site
- Apalolepis toombsi1 site
- Benneviaspis1 site
- Benneviaspis holtedahli1 site
- Benneviaspis salopiensis1 site
- Climatiiformes1 site
- Corvaspis1 site
- Europrotaspis crenulata1 site
- Heightingtonaspis anglica1 site
- Heightingtonaspis willsi1 site
- Irregulareaspis hoeli1 site
- Nodonchus bambusifer1 site
- Onchus besomensis1 site
- Onchus wheathillensis1 site
- Parameteoraspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kiaeraspis, 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- The vertebrate stratigraphy of the Lower Devonian (Red Bay Group and Wood Bay Formation) of Spitsbergen2
- Chapter 4. Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Kiaeraspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kiaeraspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itKiaeraspididae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stensio 1927