Sceptaspis lincolnensis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 21 of 21 occurrencesOrdovician458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453.8 Mya451 Mya457.8 Mya449.1 Mya

21 occurrences of Sceptaspis lincolnensis 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

21 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

15 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.00°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WProsser Limestone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WShipshaw — 48.64°N, 71.20°W

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

Sceptaspis lincolnensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sceptaspis lincolnensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Sceptaspis lincolnensis, 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

7 references

Each of the 21 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. 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

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

No 3D scan of Sceptaspis lincolnensis 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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What may have been alongside itSceptaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson 1909)