Allocryptaspis utahensis

GREGORY+U.C. PARTY · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- AllocryptaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Allocryptaspis utahensis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Allocryptaspis utahensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allocryptaspis utahensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Allocryptaspis utahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Aethaspis major1 site
- Aethaspis utahensis1 site
- Bryantolepis1 site
- Bryantonchus peracutus1 site
- Cacheacanthus utahensis1 site
- Camptaspis utahensis1 site
- Nodocosta denisoni1 site
- Psephaspis williamsi1 site
- Ptychodictyon americanum1 site
- Simblaspis cachensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Allocryptaspis utahensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Allocryptaspis utahensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- GREGORY+U.C. PARTY
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Allocryptaspis utahensis 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 itAllocryptaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Denison 1953