Jaekelopterus howelli
No picture of Jaekelopterus howelli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Jaekelopterus howelli itself, so it was not used. 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 Jaekelopterus howelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JaekelopterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
2 occurrences of Jaekelopterus howelli 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
2 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 Jaekelopterus howelli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Jaekelopterus howelli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Jaekelopterus howelli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Cephalaspis2 sites
- <Morphotype I>1 site
- <Morphotype II>1 site
- <Trimerophyte>1 site
- Acanthoscorpio mucronatus1 site
- Aethaspis1 site
- Allocryptaspis1 site
- Allocryptaspis elliptica1 site
- Anarthraspis chamberlini1 site
- Anarthraspis montanus1 site
- Apiculatisporis1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Branchioscorpio richardsoni1 site
- Broeggeria1 site
- Bryantolepis1 site
- Bryantolepis brachycephala1 site
- Bryantonchus peracutus1 site
- Bulbocanthus rugosus1 site
- Cardipeltis1 site
- Cardipeltis bryanti1 site
- Cardipeltis wallacii1 site
- Chomotriletes1 site
- Cosmaspis transversa1 site
- Cyrtaspidichthys ovata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Jaekelopterus howelli, 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- An isolated pterygotid ramus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation, Wyoming1
- Like father, like son? Not amongst the eurypterids (Chelicerata) from Beartooth Butte, Wyoming1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Jaekelopterus howelli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Jaekelopterus howelli itself, so it was not used.
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 Jaekelopterus howelli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Jaekelopterus howelli 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 itJaekelopterus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kjellesvig-Waering and Stoermer 1952