Beggaspis elongatum
No picture of Beggaspis elongatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Beggaspis elongatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeggaspisPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 448.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Beggaspis elongatum 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
- South Threave Formation · Drummock Group1
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The named rock units Beggaspis elongatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Beggaspis elongatum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Beggaspis elongatum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Astroproetus asteroideus1 site
- Astroproetus reedi1 site
- Cyphoproetus rotundatus1 site
- Encrinurus trispinosus1 site
- Panarchaeogonus trigodus1 site
- Proetus (Astroproetus) whittardi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Beggaspis elongatum, 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 Beggaspis elongatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Beggaspis elongatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beggaspis elongatum 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 itBeggaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Begg 1939)