Gerastos fosterae

No picture of Gerastos fosterae 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 fosterae, 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 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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4 occurrences of Gerastos fosterae 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

4 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 — 75.80°N, 94.50°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°W

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

Gerastos fosterae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Gerastos fosterae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gerastos fosterae, 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

1 reference

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 Gerastos fosterae 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 fosterae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gerastos fosterae 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 SilurianThe world it lived on

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