Tesseraspis tessellata

Tesseraspis tessellata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TesseraspisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 5.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 416.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesDevonian423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423.2 Mya416.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Tesseraspis tessellata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

Psammosteus Limestone — 52.53°N, 2.48°WRaglan Marl — 51.71°N, 2.51°W

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

Tesseraspis tessellata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tesseraspis tessellata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tesseraspis tessellata, 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 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 Tesseraspis tessellata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tesseraspis tessellata 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 itTesseraspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wills 1935