Spatulaspis costata
No picture of Spatulaspis costata 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 Spatulaspis costata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpatulaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Spatulaspis costata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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 Spatulaspis costata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spatulaspis costata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spatulaspis costata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Doryaspis nathorsti2 sites
- Nectaspis areolata2 sites
- Axinaspis whitei1 site
- Belonaspis minuta1 site
- Belonaspis puella1 site
- Benneviaspis grandis1 site
- Benneviaspis lovgreeni1 site
- Benneviaspis maxima1 site
- Boreaspis batoides1 site
- Boreaspis ceratops1 site
- Boreaspis intermedia1 site
- Boreaspis macrorhynchus1 site
- Boreaspis puella1 site
- Boreaspis rostrata1 site
- Cephalaspis curta1 site
- Cephalaspis fracticornis1 site
- Cephalaspis isachseni1 site
- Cephalaspis laticornis1 site
- Cephalaspis oblonga1 site
- Cephalaspis producta1 site
- Diademaspis jarviki1 site
- Dicranaspis curtirostris1 site
- Gigantaspis bocki1 site
- Gigantaspis isachseni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Spatulaspis costata, 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spatulaspis costata 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 Spatulaspis costata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spatulaspis costata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpatulaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wängsjö 1952