Levisaspis
No picture of Levisaspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Levisaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NorwoodiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Norwoodiidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Norwoodiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Levisaspis on record. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian50%
- Ordovician50%
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
- Lampazar Formation2
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
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The named rock units Levisaspis 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.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Angelina hyeronimi2 sites
- Asaphellus aspinus2 sites
- Conophrys2 sites
- Gymnagnostus2 sites
- Kainelidae indet.2 sites
- Micragnostus vilonii2 sites
- Onychopyge2 sites
- Parabolina (Neoparabolina) frequens2 sites
- Parabolinella coelatifrons2 sites
- Pseudoharpatagnostus tmetus2 sites
- Pseudotalbontina sp.2 sites
- Strictagnostus2 sites
- Bienvillia1 site
- Dokimokephalidae1 site
- Euloma1 site
- Highgatella1 site
- Hystricurus1 site
- Leiostegium1 site
- Lloydia1 site
- Lotagnostus1 site
- Onchonotus1 site
- Parabolinella1 site
- Parapilekia1 site
- Pilekia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Levisaspis, 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
3 references- Paleoecological dynamics of Furongian (Late Cambrian) trilobite-dominated communities from northwestern Argentina2
- Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada1
- Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series1
Each of the 4 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 Levisaspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Levisaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levisaspis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNorwoodiidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1943