Mucronaspis
Searched as Mucronaspis destombesi destombesi. The Paleobiology Database treats Mucronaspis as the accepted name.
No picture of Mucronaspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mucronaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanitidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461.1 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Mucronaspis 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Mucronaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mucronaspis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mucronaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
722 taxa- Hirnantia sagittifera21 sites
- Dalmanella18 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria18 sites
- Eostropheodonta hirnantensis18 sites
- Ectillaenus17 sites
- Leptaena17 sites
- Cliftonia16 sites
- Nobiliasaphus16 sites
- Leptaena rugosa15 sites
- Neseuretus tristani15 sites
- Hindella13 sites
- Neseuretus13 sites
- Selenopeltis13 sites
- Eostropheodonta12 sites
- Colpocoryphe11 sites
- Bryozoa10 sites
- Crinoidea10 sites
- Eodalmanitina macrophthalma10 sites
- Kloucekia10 sites
- Plectothyrella crassicosta10 sites
- Actinopeltis9 sites
- Cliftonia psittacina9 sites
- Colpocoryphe rouaulti9 sites
- Ctenodonta9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Mucronaspis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Mucronaspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mucronaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mucronaspis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDalmanitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Destombes 1963)