Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons

Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons

Karpitski · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Megistaspis (Megistaspidella)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469.6 Mya463.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

Holen — 57.32°N, 17.00°EHolen — 57.03°N, 16.88°EOland C — 57.35°N, 17.04°E

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The named rock units Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

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

Media content1

Picture of Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons

Source
GBIF
Credit
Karpitski
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons 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 itMegistaspis (Megistaspidella) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bohlin 1960