Peraspis omega
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeraspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Nileidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Peraspis omega 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
2 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 Peraspis omega has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Peraspis omega and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Peraspis omega and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bienvillia papulosa2 sites
- Carolinites ekphymosus2 sites
- Hypermecaspis latigena2 sites
- Cloacaspis ekphymosa1 site
- Cloacaspis senilis1 site
- Endymionia clavaria1 site
- Falanaspis extensa1 site
- Globampyx trinucleoides1 site
- Hypermecaspis brevifrons1 site
- Poronileus jugatus1 site
- Remopleuridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Peraspis omega, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Peraspis omega was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Peraspis omega, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPeraspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1975