Acernaspis superciliexcelsis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcernaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phacopidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Acernaspis superciliexcelsis 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician9%
- Silurian91%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Acernaspis superciliexcelsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acernaspis superciliexcelsis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Acernaspis superciliexcelsis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Calymene3 sites
- Dicranopeltis3 sites
- Encrinurus squarrosus3 sites
- Hadromeros elongatus3 sites
- Kosovopeltis3 sites
- Acernaspis xynon2 sites
- Cyphoproetus externus2 sites
- Decoroproetus farragatus2 sites
- Deiphon2 sites
- Exallaspis varbolensis2 sites
- Harpidella (Harpidella) newlandensis2 sites
- Hemiarges2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Opsypharus maccallumi2 sites
- Platylichas2 sites
- Stenopareia glochin2 sites
- Acernaspis (Eskaspis)1 site
- Alispira1 site
- Ancyrochitina1 site
- Armenoceras1 site
- Astroproetus interjectus1 site
- Astroproetus scoticus1 site
- Atavograptus1 site
- Atrypa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Acernaspis superciliexcelsis, 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- Scottish Silurian trilobites3
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)1
Each of the 5 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 Acernaspis superciliexcelsis 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 Acernaspis superciliexcelsis, 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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What may have been alongside itAcernaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Howells 1982