Gumuaspidae

No picture of Gumuaspidae 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 Gumuaspidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PolybranchiaspidiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 5 of 7 occurrencesDevonian440–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432.9 Mya413.02 Mya440 Mya381 Mya

7 occurrences of Gumuaspidae 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

7 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

6 formations

Xishancun — 25.49°N, 103.80°EXitun — 25.49°N, 103.80°ENagaoling — 22.77°N, 108.30°ETataaiertage — 40.54°N, 78.98°EPosongchong — 23.27°N, 104.27°EQingshui — 29.23°N, 114.83°E

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

Gumuaspidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Gumuaspidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gumuaspidae, 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

4 references

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

No 3D scan of Gumuaspidae 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 itPolybranchiaspidiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gai et al. 2018