Aphelaspis spinosa

No picture of Aphelaspis spinosa 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 Aphelaspis spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphelaspisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Aphelaspidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 2.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 494.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian497–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497.5 Mya493.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Aphelaspis spinosa 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

4 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

1 formation

Riley — 30.84°N, 98.34°WRiley — 30.91°N, 99.00°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.37°W

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

Aphelaspis spinosa and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Aphelaspis spinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aphelaspis spinosa, 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 reference

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Aphelaspis spinosa 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 Aphelaspis spinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aphelaspis spinosa 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 itAphelaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1954