Aspidograptus smithtonensis
No picture of Aspidograptus smithtonensis 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 Aspidograptus smithtonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspidograptusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dendroidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dendroidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Dendroidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Graptolithina
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 494.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aspidograptus smithtonensis 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Aspidograptus smithtonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aspidograptus smithtonensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Aspidograptus smithtonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Aellograptus savitskyi1 site
- Archaeolafoea longicornis1 site
- Archaeolafoea monegettae1 site
- Callograptus praesalteri1 site
- Dendrograptus hallianus1 site
- Desmograptus quiltyi1 site
- Dictyonema ramosissimum1 site
- Mastigograptus serialis1 site
- Palaeodictyota1 site
- Polygonograptus mellaensis1 site
- Thallograptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aspidograptus smithtonensis, 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 Aspidograptus smithtonensis 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 Aspidograptus smithtonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspidograptus smithtonensis 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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What may have been alongside itAspidograptus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rickards et al. 1990