Asgardaspira

No picture of Asgardaspira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Asgardaspira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OphiletidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya449.6 Mya471.8 Mya445 Mya

14 occurrences of Asgardaspira 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

14 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

6 formations

Antelope Valley — 38.96°N, 116.49°WAntelope Valley — 39.19°N, 116.38°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 39.20°N, 116.25°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.65°WElnes — 61.33°N, 8.80°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.17°EElnes — 59.92°N, 10.75°ETelsitna — 63.91°N, 153.68°WPort Clarence Limestone — 65.50°N, 165.92°WLower Setul — 6.62°N, 100.22°ESolvang — 59.89°N, 10.69°E

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

Asgardaspira and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Asgardaspira and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Asgardaspira, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Asgardaspira was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Asgardaspira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOphiletidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1999