Edgecombeaspis

No picture of Edgecombeaspis 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 Edgecombeaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesSilurian433–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433.4 Mya426.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Edgecombeaspis 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

12 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

1 formation

Cape Phillips — 75.10°N, 94.00°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 74.10°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Edgecombeaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Edgecombeaspis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Edgecombeaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Edgecombeaspis, 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 reference

Each of the 12 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 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 Edgecombeaspis 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 Edgecombeaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Edgecombeaspis 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 itOdontopleurinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adrain and Ramskold 1997