Gerastos verrucosus
No picture of Gerastos verrucosus 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 Gerastos verrucosus, 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 least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
7 occurrences of Gerastos verrucosus 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Gerastos verrucosus 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.
Gerastos verrucosus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Gerastos verrucosus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Beyrichia6 sites
- Calymene6 sites
- Syringopora5 sites
- Encrinurus4 sites
- Heliolites4 sites
- Papillicalymene4 sites
- Eophacops3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Lophiostroma schmidtii3 sites
- Proetus3 sites
- Protochonetes ludloviensis3 sites
- Acervularia2 sites
- Anthozoa2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Aulopora2 sites
- Balizoma2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Clathrodictyon2 sites
- Coenites2 sites
- Conchicolites2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Gerastos verrucosus, 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
3 references- Animal and plant communities of Podolia4
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland2
- Revision der Ostbaltischen Silurichen Trilobiten. Abtheilung IV: Calymmeniden, Proetiden, Bronteiden, Harpediden, Trunicleiden, Remopleuriden und Agnostiden.1
Each of the 7 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 verrucosus 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 Gerastos verrucosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gerastos verrucosus 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. (Lindström 1885)