Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps
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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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 461.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
39 occurrences of Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps 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
39 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
6 formations
- Holen Formation27
- Obukhovo Formation1
- Oland C Formation1
- Juodupe Formation1
- Vexin Formation1
- Obukhovskaya Formation1
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The named rock units Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Illaenus18 sites
- Pliomera fisheri18 sites
- Megistaspis13 sites
- Ampyx nasutus12 sites
- Metopolichas celorrhin12 sites
- Ptychopyge12 sites
- Asaphus expansus9 sites
- Pterygometopus sclerops9 sites
- Cyrtometopus affinis7 sites
- Lycophoria nucella7 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata7 sites
- Antigonambonites6 sites
- Pseudasaphus6 sites
- Remopleurides6 sites
- Cyrtometopus5 sites
- Cyrtometopus clavifrons5 sites
- Niobe frontalis5 sites
- Pseudocrania5 sites
- Trinodus5 sites
- Laneites ingrica4 sites
- Metopolichas verrucosus4 sites
- Nieszkowskia tumida4 sites
- Pterygometopus4 sites
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps, 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
5 references- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland28
- Description of the upper portion of the drill-core from Finngrundet in the South Bothnian Bay7
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)2
- Ordovician (Arenig-Caradoc) syntrophiidine brachiopods from the east Baltic region1
- The revision of structural - facial zonation and stratigraphy of the lower part of the Ordovician in the south - east Baltic area1
Each of the 39 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.
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No picture of Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps 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) raniceps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps 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. Dalman 1827