Acastella spinosa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 7 of 14 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 7 of 14 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 1 occurrence424–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya413.02 Mya427.4 Mya392.8 Mya

14 occurrences of Acastella spinosa 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

14 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

7 formations

Benyassin Sandstone — 28.75°N, 0.17°EWinnica — 50.82°N, 21.33°ELeintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDzwinogorod Beds — 49.08°N, 25.40°EOued Ali — 29.75°N, 2.28°WZeimlet — 29.52°N, 2.20°WWinnica Mudstone Complex — 50.88°N, 21.11°E

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The named rock units Acastella spinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acastella spinosa and its relatives

Silurian

Where Acastella spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Acastella spinosa, 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 14 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

Media content0

No picture of Acastella spinosa 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 Acastella spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1864)