Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica

Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica

Wahl · 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 (Paramegistaspis)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 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 475.6 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 17 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476.1 Mya470.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica 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

17 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

6 formations

Leetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°EVolkhov — 59.75°N, 30.43°EVolkhov — 59.88°N, 31.59°ELatorp — 59.24°N, 14.94°EVolkhov — 59.40°N, 24.61°EToila — 59.43°N, 24.79°ELeetse — 59.45°N, 25.18°E

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The named rock units Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) estonica

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tjernvik 1956)