Fieldaspis superba

No picture of Fieldaspis superba was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fieldaspis superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FieldaspisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesCambrian510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510.2 Mya496.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Fieldaspis superba 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

9 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

3 formations

Pioche Shale — 37.89°N, 114.58°WPioche Shale — 37.76°N, 114.55°WMt. Whyte — 51.50°N, 116.50°WMount Cap — 62.35°N, 127.33°W

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

Fieldaspis superba and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Fieldaspis superba and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Fieldaspis superba, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Fieldaspis superba was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fieldaspis superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itFieldaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1951