Primaspis

Primaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleurinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 96 occurrencesOrdovician — about 80 of 96 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 96 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 96 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 5 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 8 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 22 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 22 occurrences447–443 Mya — about 14 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 8 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459.7 Mya410.62 Mya489 Mya392 Mya

96 occurrences of Primaspis 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

96 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

46 formations

Liben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELiben — 49.68°N, 13.47°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°EBecscie — 49.82°N, 64.35°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 39.06°N, 84.44°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.53°WKope — 39.07°N, 84.50°WVenstøp — 60.05°N, 10.18°EVenstøp — 59.89°N, 10.69°EVenstøp — 59.07°N, 9.70°EVenstøp — 59.92°N, 10.83°EHusbergøya — 59.90°N, 10.73°EHusbergøya — 59.85°N, 10.49°ESolvang — 60.00°N, 11.00°ESolvang — 59.85°N, 10.73°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EBoda Limestone — 60.07°N, 15.18°EBoda Limestone — 60.97°N, 15.15°EBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WClays Ferry — 38.33°N, 84.31°WVenstop — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVenstop — 58.99°N, 9.75°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 60.84°N, 11.01°EWhittaker — 62.38°N, 127.00°WTaemas — 34.95°S, 148.82°EVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WSørbakken — 60.05°N, 10.18°ELexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WKirkley Bank — 54.43°N, 2.78°WCaesar Canyon Limestone — 39.09°N, 116.85°WSaturday Mountain — 44.28°N, 114.50°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WHusbergoya Shale — 60.00°N, 11.00°EGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°W

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The named rock units Primaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Primaspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Primaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,202 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Primaspis, 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

39 references

Each of the 96 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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 Primaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Primaspis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richter and Richter 1917