Diacanthaspis

Diacanthaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OdontopleurinaePBDB
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 least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 475.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 53 of 64 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 11 of 64 occurrencesSilurian476–475 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 10 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 10 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 8 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 4 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 4 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 4 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence471.3 Mya425 Mya476 Mya422 Mya

64 occurrences of Diacanthaspis 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

64 occurrences

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

28 formations

Edinburg — 38.99°N, 78.36°WEdinburg — 38.99°N, 78.35°WEdinburg — 38.84°N, 78.55°WEdinburg — 38.82°N, 78.55°WEdinburg — 38.56°N, 78.86°WBalclatchie — 55.21°N, 4.83°WBalclatchie — 54.84°N, 4.05°WKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.32°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.18°EMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WMartinsburg — 38.52°N, 78.89°WMartinsburg — 38.30°N, 78.01°WMartinsburg — 38.25°N, 79.05°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WDelorme — 62.77°N, 125.25°WOranda — 39.00°N, 78.00°WOranda — 38.52°N, 78.89°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WKraluv Dvur — 50.05°N, 14.46°EFuruberget — 60.37°N, 10.42°ERhiwlas Limestone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WPizarras Carretera — 39.00°N, 5.00°WWahwah — 39.18°N, 113.50°WFillmore — 39.84°N, 113.46°WUlunda Mudstone — 58.00°N, 13.00°ECraighead Limestone — 57.00°N, 4.00°WNinemile — 37.34°N, 115.38°WValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EHaverford — 51.80°N, 4.98°WKaragach — 47.99°N, 80.91°EJonstorp — 58.19°N, 13.53°ESolvang — 60.36°N, 10.54°ERust — 43.28°N, 75.14°WDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WShihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°E

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The named rock units Diacanthaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diacanthaspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Diacanthaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

807 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Diacanthaspis, 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

34 references

Each of the 64 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 Diacanthaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Diacanthaspis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittington 1941