Pseudoasaphus

Searched as Pseudoasaphus tecticaudatus praecurrens. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudoasaphus as the accepted name.

Pseudoasaphus is an extinct genus of trilobites from the Ordovician.

Pseudoasaphus

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AsaphidaePBDB
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 least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya461.4 Mya469.6 Mya459.2 Mya

2 occurrences of Pseudoasaphus 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

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

Vaginatumkalk — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°E

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

Pseudoasaphus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudoasaphus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pseudoasaphus, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Pseudoasaphus

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pseudoasaphus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1901