Kettneraspis wrightae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KettneraspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Kettneraspis wrightae 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kettneraspis wrightae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kettneraspis wrightae and its relatives
SilurianWhere Kettneraspis wrightae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Edgecombeaspis6 sites
- Arcticalymene5 sites
- Dudleyaspis5 sites
- Radiaspis4 sites
- Ceratocephala2 sites
- Laethoprusia2 sites
- Euomphalopterus alatus1 site
- Gerastos fosterae1 site
- Gerastos mellishae1 site
- Murchisonia obtusangula1 site
- Oriostoma1 site
- Pachystrophia gotlandicus1 site
- Platyostoma boggsi1 site
- Promourlonia furcata1 site
- Pseudogerastos1 site
- Salpingostoma martinssoni1 site
- Struszia petebesti1 site
- Tropidocoryphinae1 site
- Westropia benfieldi1 site
- Winiskia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kettneraspis wrightae, 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 Kettneraspis wrightae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kettneraspis wrightae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kettneraspis wrightae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itKettneraspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adrain and Ramskold 1997