Dalaspis pustulosa
No picture of Dalaspis pustulosa 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 Dalaspis pustulosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalaspisPBDB
- 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 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Dalaspis pustulosa on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Dalaspis pustulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dalaspis pustulosa and its relatives
SilurianWhere Dalaspis pustulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acernaspis orestes4 sites
- Calymene gamachei4 sites
- Distyrax maccormicki4 sites
- Acernaspis3 sites
- Dalarnepeltis dewingi3 sites
- Diacalymene lesperancei3 sites
- Encrinurus longi3 sites
- Hadromeros3 sites
- Radiurus adraini3 sites
- Rielaspis elegantula3 sites
- Stelckaspis perplexa3 sites
- Stenopareia3 sites
- Warburgella3 sites
- Acernaspis copperi2 sites
- Anacaenaspis2 sites
- Arctinurus2 sites
- Lichidae2 sites
- Anacaenaspis zedei1 site
- Anadesma shallopensis1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Calymene nowlani1 site
- Dalaspis boltoni1 site
- Diacalymene schucherti1 site
- Ekwanoscutellum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dalaspis pustulosa, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Dalaspis pustulosa 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 Dalaspis pustulosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dalaspis pustulosa 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 itDalaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chatterton and Ludvigsen 2004