Traquairaspis campbelli
No picture of Traquairaspis campbelli 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 Traquairaspis campbelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TraquairaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Traquairaspis campbelli 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
- Cowie Formation · Stonehaven Group1
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The named rock units Traquairaspis campbelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Traquairaspis campbelli and its relatives
SilurianWhere Traquairaspis campbelli and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Albadesmus almondi1 site
- Ambitisporites avitus1 site
- Ambitisporites dilutus1 site
- Archaeozonotriletes chulus1 site
- Artemopyra brevicosta1 site
- Artemopyra sp.1 site
- Cheilotetras caledonica1 site
- Cowiedesmus eroticopodus1 site
- Cowielepis1 site
- Cymbosporites sp.1 site
- Dictyocaris1 site
- Dyadospora murusattenuata1 site
- Dyadospora murusdensa1 site
- Hemicyclaspis1 site
- Hispanaediscus lamontii1 site
- Hispanaediscus verrucatus1 site
- Hispanaediscus wenlockensis1 site
- Laevolancis divellomedium1 site
- Laevolancis plicata1 site
- Nanahughmilleria norvegica1 site
- Pneumodesmus newmani1 site
- Pseudodyadospora petasus1 site
- Synorisporites spp.1 site
- Tetrahedraletes medinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Traquairaspis campbelli, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Traquairaspis campbelli 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 Traquairaspis campbelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Traquairaspis campbelli 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTraquairaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Traquair 1913)