Chekiangaspis chekiangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChekiangaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Olenidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Chekiangaspis chekiangensis 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chekiangaspis chekiangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chekiangaspis chekiangensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Chekiangaspis chekiangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Eosaukia1 site
- Hedinaspis1 site
- Lotagnostus punctatus1 site
- Macropyge (Promacropyge) carinata1 site
- Micragnostus1 site
- Proceratopyge (Sinoproceratopyge) constrictus1 site
- Proceratopyge rectispinata1 site
- Pseudagnostus1 site
- Pseudoyuepingia brevica1 site
- Pseudoyuepingia intermedia1 site
- Pseudoyuepingia modesta1 site
- Sanduspis gracilis1 site
- Wujiajiania limitis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chekiangaspis chekiangensis, 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
3 references- The Cambrian trilobites of western Zhejiang3
- Cambro-Ordovician boundary in western Zhejiang and the trilobites contained therein2
- Cambrian trilobites from Sandu and Duyun, southern Kweichow1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Chekiangaspis chekiangensis 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 Chekiangaspis chekiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chekiangaspis chekiangensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChekiangaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu 1961