Allocryptaspis
No picture of Allocryptaspis 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 Allocryptaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterostraciPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Allocryptaspis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Allocryptaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allocryptaspis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Allocryptaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Bryantolepis2 sites
- Bryantonchus peracutus2 sites
- <Morphotype I>1 site
- <Morphotype II>1 site
- <Trimerophyte>1 site
- Aethaspis1 site
- Aethaspis major1 site
- Aethaspis utahensis1 site
- Anarthraspis chamberlini1 site
- Anarthraspis montanus1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Apiculatisporis1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Broeggeria1 site
- Bryantolepis brachycephala1 site
- Bulbocanthus rugosus1 site
- Cacheacanthus utahensis1 site
- Camptaspis utahensis1 site
- Cardipeltis wallacii1 site
- Cephalaspis1 site
- Chomotriletes1 site
- Chonetidae1 site
- Cyrtaspidichthys ovata1 site
- Cyrtaspidichthys sculpta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Allocryptaspis, 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
4 references- A Fossil Flora from the Beartooth Butte Formation of Northern Wyoming2
- A new species of Allocryptaspis (Heterostraci) from the Early Devonian, with comments on the structure of the oral area in cyathaspidids1
- Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids1
- Early Devonian Fishes from Utah. Part II Heterostraci1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Allocryptaspis 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 Allocryptaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Allocryptaspis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeterostraci through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bryant and Ruedemann 1934