Lasanius armatus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LasaniusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
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.
2 occurrences of Lasanius armatus 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
2 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
- Slot Burn Formation · Waterhead Group1
- Fish Bed Formation · Glenbuck Group1
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The named rock units Lasanius armatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lasanius armatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Lasanius armatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Ateleaspis tessellata2 sites
- Birkenia elegans2 sites
- Lanarkia horrida2 sites
- Lanarkia lanceolata2 sites
- Lanarkia spinosa2 sites
- Lanarkia spinulosa2 sites
- Lasanius problematicus2 sites
- Shielia taiti2 sites
- Brachyopterella1 site
- Hughmilleria1 site
- Lanarkopterus1 site
- Lasanius alatus1 site
- Lasanius ornatus1 site
- Logania scotica1 site
- Monkolepis maculatus1 site
- Parastylonurus ornatus1 site
- Phyllocarida1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Pseudarthron whittingtoni1 site
- Stylonurella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lasanius armatus, 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
2 references- Silurian fossil fishes sites of Scotland1
- Report on fossil fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in the Silurian rocks of the south of Scotland1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lasanius armatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lasanius armatus 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 itLasanius through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1899