Leonaspis hoernesii

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · 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
- LeonaspisPBDB
- 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Leonaspis hoernesii 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
8 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Leonaspis hoernesii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leonaspis hoernesii and its relatives
DevonianWhere Leonaspis hoernesii and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
261 taxa- Scabriscutellum7 sites
- Ceratocephala5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Eremiproetus5 sites
- Kettneraspis elliptica5 sites
- Lioharpes crassimargo5 sites
- Phaetonellus5 sites
- Acanthopyge (Lobopyge) docekali4 sites
- Crotalocephalus4 sites
- Crotalocephalus sternbergi4 sites
- Koneprusia4 sites
- Nephranomma modestus4 sites
- Pedinopariops degener4 sites
- Phacops4 sites
- Pseudobactrites4 sites
- Scharyia4 sites
- Xiphogonium verrucatum4 sites
- Cavetia furcifera3 sites
- Cornuproetus curtus3 sites
- Cyphaspides3 sites
- Cystoidea3 sites
- Dacryoconarida3 sites
- Eremiproetus dufresnoyi3 sites
- Goniatitida3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Leonaspis hoernesii, 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
3 references- Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments4
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages3
- Die Trilobiten von Greifenstein/Hörre—Ableger einer böhmischen Fauna im Rheinischen Schiefergebirge1
Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Leonaspis hoernesii
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLeonaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1846)