Falanaspis

Falanaspis is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived during the early part of the Arenig stage of the Ordovician Period, a faunal stage which lasted from approximately 478 to 471 million years ago.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlsataspididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 20 occurrencesOrdovician — about 20 of 20 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482.9 Mya471.3 Mya487.4 Mya456.7 Mya

20 occurrences of Falanaspis 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

20 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

7 formations

Tøyen — 60.00°N, 9.97°ETøyen — 59.73°N, 9.87°ETøyen — 59.65°N, 9.65°EValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EBjørkåsholmen — 60.00°N, 9.97°EBjørkåsholmen — 59.92°N, 10.73°EBjorkasholmen — 59.14°N, 11.18°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°EBjørkåsholmen — 59.97°N, 9.99°ETøyen — 58.10°N, 13.70°E

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The named rock units Falanaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Falanaspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Falanaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Falanaspis, 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

6 references

Each of the 20 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

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

No 3D scan of Falanaspis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAlsataspididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tjernvik 1956