Meelaidaspis gennadii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeelaidaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Meelaidaspis gennadii 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
3 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
2 formations
- Halla Formation2
- Viita Formation · Rootsiküla Group1
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The named rock units Meelaidaspis gennadii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Meelaidaspis gennadii and its relatives
SilurianWhere Meelaidaspis gennadii and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ctenognathodus murchisoni2 sites
- Oeselaspis pustulata2 sites
- Oeselia2 sites
- Oulodus excavatus2 sites
- Oulodus siluricus2 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica2 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens2 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri2 sites
- Paralogania martinssoni2 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida2 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula2 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii2 sites
- Saaremaaspis mickwitzi2 sites
- Schidiosteus mustelensis2 sites
- Thelodus laevis2 sites
- Thyestes verrucosus2 sites
- Tremataspis milleri2 sites
- Wurmiella excavata2 sites
- Aestiaspis viitaensis1 site
- Ctenognathodus1 site
- Eldaaspis miklii1 site
- Kockelella ? spp.1 site
- Ozarkodina wimani1 site
- Rhyncholepis butriangula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meelaidaspis gennadii, 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- End-Wenlock terminal Mulde carbon isotope excursion in Gotland, Sweden: Integration of stratigraphy and taphonomy for correlations across restricted facies and specialized faunas2
- Biodiversity of the Silurian osteostracans of the East Baltic1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Meelaidaspis gennadii 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 Meelaidaspis gennadii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meelaidaspis gennadii 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 itMeelaidaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Märss et al. 2014