Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus
No picture of Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus 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 Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Asaphus (Asaphus)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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 Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Ampyx nasutus1 site
- Apomatella ingrica1 site
- Linguloidea1 site
- Lonchodomas volborthi1 site
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda1 site
- Metopolichas1 site
- Orthis callactis1 site
- Palaeoneumania1 site
- Paurorthis1 site
- Productorthis eminens1 site
- Ujukella fastigata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus, 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 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 Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus 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 Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asaphus (Asaphus) expansus 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 itAsaphus (Asaphus) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wahlenberg 1821)