Liomegalaspides blackwelderi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiomegalaspidesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Liomegalaspides blackwelderi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
5 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Liomegalaspides blackwelderi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liomegalaspides blackwelderi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Liomegalaspides blackwelderi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Agerina elongata2 sites
- Hanchungolithinae2 sites
- Hexacopyge nasuta2 sites
- Liomegalaspides taningensis2 sites
- Nileus walcotti2 sites
- Ningkianolithus2 sites
- Ovalocephalus2 sites
- Pseudocalymene transversa2 sites
- Rhombampyx yii2 sites
- Trinodus2 sites
- Annamitella1 site
- Aulacopleura (Paraaulacopleura) dawanensis1 site
- Carolinites genacinaca1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Hanchungolithus1 site
- Illaenus sinensis1 site
- Metagnostidae1 site
- Ningkianites1 site
- Opsimasaphus1 site
- Raphiophorinae1 site
- Yinpanolithus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Liomegalaspides blackwelderi, 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 5 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 Liomegalaspides blackwelderi 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 Liomegalaspides blackwelderi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liomegalaspides blackwelderi 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 itLiomegalaspides through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weller 1907)