Aglaspis

Aglaspis is the type genus of the family Aglaspididae within the arthropod order Aglaspidida. It lived on the seafloor in what is now Wisconsin during late Cambrian times.

Aglaspis

Qohelet12 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AglaspididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Aglaspidida

Time the record covers

At least 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 6 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497 Mya490.2 Mya505 Mya486.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Aglaspis 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

6 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

3 formations

St. Lawrence — 43.20°N, 90.07°WSt. Lawrence — 43.33°N, 90.39°WSt. Lawrence — 43.19°N, 89.77°WTrempealeau — 44.52°N, 89.57°WWeeks — 39.22°N, 113.40°W

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

Aglaspis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Aglaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aglaspis, 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

Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Aglaspis

Credit
Qohelet12
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Aglaspis sp. · MPM:P

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAglaspididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1862