Aspelundia

Aspelundia

Männik, Peep · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrioniodinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 7 of 150 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 141 of 150 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 150 occurrencesDevonian450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–445 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 2 occurrences443–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 7 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 17 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 20 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 22 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 22 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 22 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 17 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445.5 Mya430.6 Mya450.3 Mya412.3 Mya

150 occurrences of Aspelundia 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

150 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

26 formations

Cape Phillips — 77.48°N, 84.95°WCape Phillips — 76.27°N, 95.30°WCape Phillips — 76.88°N, 96.83°WCape Phillips — 77.53°N, 83.92°WCape Phillips — 75.62°N, 94.50°WAllen Bay — 77.52°N, 83.97°WHendricks — 43.22°N, 84.86°WHendricks — 45.73°N, 86.64°WHendricks — 43.60°N, 87.85°WHendricks — 43.47°N, 87.90°WHendricks — 43.31°N, 87.91°WLafayette Bugt — 82.48°N, 40.17°WLafayette Bugt — 80.82°N, 65.08°WLafayette Bugt — 81.33°N, 61.77°WVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°ESevern River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WSevern River — 56.95°N, 90.03°WOdins Fjord — 82.45°N, 28.00°WOdins Fjord — 82.80°N, 35.88°WAleqatsiaq Fjord — 80.65°N, 65.80°WHauge Bjerge — 80.82°N, 65.08°WYmers Gletscher — 82.45°N, 28.00°WYmers Gletscher — 82.80°N, 35.88°WCap Godfred Hansen — 80.87°N, 64.97°WCap Godfred Hansen — 81.33°N, 61.77°WEkwan River — 56.77°N, 90.83°WEkwan River — 56.95°N, 90.03°WWulf Land — 82.45°N, 28.00°WSamuelsen — 82.45°N, 28.00°WSilurian Carbonate 3 — 82.48°N, 40.17°WSilurian Carbonate 2 — 82.48°N, 40.17°WMotala — 58.53°N, 14.98°ETuresø — 82.45°N, 28.00°WWulff Land — 82.45°N, 28.00°WKap Morton — 81.18°N, 63.40°WOffley Island — 81.33°N, 61.77°WCape Schuchert — 80.82°N, 65.08°WSamuelsen Hoj — 80.97°N, 20.92°WLaketown Dolomite — 38.95°N, 113.42°W

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The named rock units Aspelundia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aspelundia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Aspelundia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Aspelundia, 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

10 references

Each of the 150 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

Media content1

Picture of Aspelundia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männik, Peep
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Aspelundia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. Savage 1985