Cyphaspis barrandei

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · 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
- CyphaspisPBDB
- 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 least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
6 occurrences of Cyphaspis barrandei on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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 Cyphaspis barrandei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyphaspis barrandei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyphaspis barrandei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Crotalocephalus5 sites
- Ceratocephala4 sites
- Bojoscutellum3 sites
- Scharyia3 sites
- Acanthophyllum2 sites
- Acanthopyge2 sites
- Astycoryphe gracilis2 sites
- Biconostrophia2 sites
- Bohemiproetus bohemicus2 sites
- Dalejeproetus dalejensis mivon2 sites
- Gerastos lisyi2 sites
- Gravicalymene affinis2 sites
- Ivdelinia2 sites
- Kainops veles2 sites
- Koneprusia2 sites
- Lioharpes venulosus2 sites
- Longiproetus confusus2 sites
- Maurotarion2 sites
- Microscutellum2 sites
- Nowakia2 sites
- Paralejurus campanifer2 sites
- Radioscutellum2 sites
- Scharyia sola2 sites
- Scutellum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyphaspis barrandei, 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
5 references- Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites from southern Uzbekistan2
- Die Trilobiten von Greifenstein/Hörre—Ableger einer böhmischen Fauna im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge1
- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada1
- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments1
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages1
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. 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
Media content1

Picture of Cyphaspis barrandei
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCyphaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)