Gerastos dhondti
No picture of Gerastos dhondti 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 Gerastos dhondti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GerastosPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gerastos dhondti 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gerastos dhondti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gerastos dhondti and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gerastos dhondti and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Ceratarges2 sites
- Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) cornutus2 sites
- Goldius2 sites
- Ohleum magreani2 sites
- Pedinopariops2 sites
- Austerops couvinensis1 site
- Cornuproetus1 site
- Cyphaspis1 site
- Dohmiella1 site
- Harpes1 site
- Phacops1 site
- Phacops latifrons1 site
- Tropidocoryphe1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gerastos dhondti, 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- The phacopid trilobites Austerops McKellar & Chatterton, 2009, Hottonops gen. nov. and Loreleiops gen. nov. from the Devonian of the Ardenno-Rhenish Mountains1
- A new representative of the lichid genus Ohleum (Trilobita) from the Eifelian (Middle Devonian) of southern Belgium1
- A revision of Devonian trilobites from Belgium - Part 2. The genera Gerastos and Cornuproetus1
Each of the 3 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 Gerastos dhondti 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 Gerastos dhondti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gerastos dhondti 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.
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What may have been alongside itGerastos through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Magrean 2007