Porophoraspis

No picture of Porophoraspis 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 Porophoraspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArandaspididaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 5.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473.1 Mya468 Mya477.6 Mya457.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Porophoraspis 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

Stairway Sandstone — 25.50°S, 134.00°EStairway Sandstone — 24.02°S, 133.42°EHorn Valley Siltstone — 23.83°S, 131.77°E

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The named rock units Porophoraspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Porophoraspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Porophoraspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Porophoraspis, 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

2 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Porophoraspis 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 Porophoraspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Porophoraspis 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 itArandaspididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ritchie and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977