Ananaspis

Ananaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacopidaePBDB
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 least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 48 occurrencesSilurian — about 37 of 48 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 11 of 48 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 17 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 7 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–396 Mya — about 2 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–391 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432.9 Mya393.47 Mya444 Mya387 Mya

48 occurrences of Ananaspis 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

48 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

18 formations

Kopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.52°N, 13.50°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.07°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 49.90°N, 14.10°EKopanina — 50.38°N, 13.84°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.63°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WLipeon — 24.00°S, 65.00°WLipeon — 24.50°S, 65.10°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°ESt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WBoree Creek — 33.25°S, 148.97°EWhite Head — 48.60°N, 64.42°WPagegiai — 56.88°N, 21.18°EAlticola Limestone — 46.67°N, 13.02°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WRosebank Shale — 34.83°S, 148.92°ESafsaf Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WKess Kess — 31.75°N, 4.50°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.75°N, 4.50°WAkrech — 33.23°N, 5.62°WMariposas — 41.13°N, 1.07°W

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The named rock units Ananaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ananaspis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ananaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

641 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Ananaspis, 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

22 references

Each of the 48 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Ananaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Ananaspis 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campbell 1967