Ananaspis fecunda

Ananaspis fecunda

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnanaspisPBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 21 of 30 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 30 occurrencesDevonian431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 7 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 10 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426.7 Mya393.47 Mya431.5 Mya387.1 Mya

30 occurrences of Ananaspis fecunda 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

30 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

9 formations

Kopanina — 50.08°N, 14.47°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°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°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.07°WAlticola Limestone — 46.67°N, 13.02°EMotol — 50.00°N, 17.78°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 fecunda 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 fecunda and its relatives

Silurian

Where Ananaspis fecunda and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Ananaspis fecunda, 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

8 references

Each of the 30 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

Media content1

Picture of Ananaspis fecunda

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ananaspis fecunda 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1852)