Welleraspis newfoundlandensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WelleraspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Catillicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
8 occurrences of Welleraspis newfoundlandensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
8 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
- Holm Dal Formation · Tavsens Iskappe Group6
- Warrior Formation1
- Petit Jardin Formation1
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The named rock units Welleraspis newfoundlandensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Welleraspis newfoundlandensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Welleraspis newfoundlandensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Kormagnostus seclusus6 sites
- Balderia4 sites
- Bynumia4 sites
- Catillicephala rotunda4 sites
- Cedaria4 sites
- Conopolus granulus4 sites
- Hemirhodon4 sites
- Marjumia4 sites
- Modocia4 sites
- Olenoides4 sites
- Pearylandia4 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta4 sites
- Agnostus3 sites
- Ankoura3 sites
- Bolaspidella stymacantha3 sites
- Dorispira holmdalense3 sites
- Durinia3 sites
- Elrathia3 sites
- Exigua3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Oidalagnostus trispinifer3 sites
- Onchonotopsis3 sites
- Peronopsis3 sites
- Proagnostus bulbus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Welleraspis newfoundlandensis, 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
3 references- Molluscs of the Holm Dal Formation (late Middle Cambrian), central North Greenland6
- Fauna and paleoecology of the Upper Cambrian Warrior Formation of central Pennsylvania1
- Middle and upper Cambrian Faunas from western Newfoundland1
Each of the 8 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 Welleraspis newfoundlandensis 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 Welleraspis newfoundlandensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Welleraspis newfoundlandensis 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 itWelleraspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman 1938