Fritchaspis montagnei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FritchaspisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Harpetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fritchaspis montagnei on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fritchaspis montagnei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fritchaspis montagnei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Fritchaspis montagnei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Cyphaspis lacrimara3 sites
- Scabriscutellum3 sites
- Thysanopeltis speciosa3 sites
- Acanthopyge (Acanthopyge) haueri2 sites
- Aulacopleura bohemica2 sites
- Aulacopleurina peltata2 sites
- Chondrites2 sites
- Chotecops auspex2 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Crotalocephalus2 sites
- Cyphaspides2 sites
- Cyphaspides holinensis2 sites
- Goniatitida2 sites
- Isoprusia2 sites
- Koneprusia2 sites
- Leonaspis2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Otarion (Conoparia)2 sites
- Pedinopariops insequens2 sites
- Pedinopariops major2 sites
- Phaetonellus2 sites
- Pterochaenia2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fritchaspis montagnei, 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
2 references- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments3
- Die Trilobiten von Greifenstein/Hörre—Ableger einer böhmischen Fauna im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fritchaspis montagnei 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 Fritchaspis montagnei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fritchaspis montagnei 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 itFritchaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hawle and Corda 1847)