Dilataspis
No picture of Dilataspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Dilataspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinesidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dinesidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 512.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dilataspis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dilataspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dilataspis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Dilataspis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Abakania1 site
- Abakania crassa1 site
- Atdabanella1 site
- Atops1 site
- Bathyuriscellus1 site
- Bonnaria1 site
- Bonnaspis1 site
- Bonnia1 site
- Chakasskinella1 site
- Chondragraulina1 site
- Dinesus granulosus astrictus1 site
- Dinesus granulosus granulosus1 site
- Erbiella1 site
- Erbina certa1 site
- Erbiopsidella1 site
- Erbiopsidella convexa1 site
- Erbiopsis1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Laticephalus1 site
- Milaspis1 site
- Neocobboldia1 site
- Neopoliellina1 site
- Poliellina1 site
- Poliellina elongata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dilataspis, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dilataspis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Dilataspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dilataspis 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 itDinesidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repina et al. 1999