Keeleaspis pustula
No picture of Keeleaspis pustula 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 Keeleaspis pustula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KeeleaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Solenopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Keeleaspis pustula on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Keeleaspis pustula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Keeleaspis pustula and its relatives
CambrianWhere Keeleaspis pustula and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Kootenia diutina6 sites
- Pagetides spinulus6 sites
- Keeleaspis stupenda5 sites
- Holmiella falcuta3 sites
- Nevadella faceta3 sites
- Yukonides lacrinus3 sites
- Holmiella preancora2 sites
- Nevadella2 sites
- Sekwiaspis artifrons2 sites
- Bradyfallotaspis1 site
- Bradyfallotaspis patula1 site
- Gelasene1 site
- Nehanniaspis prima1 site
- Pagetides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Keeleaspis pustula, 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 referenceEach of the 6 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 Keeleaspis pustula 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 Keeleaspis pustula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Keeleaspis pustula 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 itKeeleaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritz 1972