Boedaspis solis
No picture of Boedaspis solis 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 Boedaspis solis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoedaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.1 Mya and 458 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Boedaspis solis 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Boedaspis solis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Boedaspis solis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Boedaspis solis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Asaphus (Asaphus) raniceps2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Megistaspis2 sites
- Pliomera fisheri2 sites
- Ampyx nasutus1 site
- Antigonambonites1 site
- Cybele bellatula1 site
- Cyrtometopus1 site
- Cyrtometopus affinis1 site
- Cyrtometopus clavifrons1 site
- Laneites ingrica1 site
- Lesueurilla1 site
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons1 site
- Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata1 site
- Metopolichas celorrhin1 site
- Metopolichas verrucosus1 site
- Pterygometopus sclerops1 site
- Ptychopyge1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Trinodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Boedaspis solis, 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
2 references- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland2
- Ordovician odontopleurid trilobites from Estonia and Latvia1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Boedaspis solis 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 Boedaspis solis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Boedaspis solis 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 itBoedaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oepik 1925)