Machairaspis isachseni
No picture of Machairaspis isachseni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Machairaspis isachseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MachairaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Machairaspis isachseni 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Machairaspis isachseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Machairaspis isachseni and its relatives
DevonianWhere Machairaspis isachseni and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Axinaspis whitei1 site
- Belonaspis minuta1 site
- Belonaspis puella1 site
- Benneviaspis grandis1 site
- Benneviaspis lovgreeni1 site
- Benneviaspis maxima1 site
- Boreaspis batoides1 site
- Boreaspis ceratops1 site
- Boreaspis intermedia1 site
- Boreaspis macrorhynchus1 site
- Boreaspis puella1 site
- Boreaspis rostrata1 site
- Cephalaspis curta1 site
- Cephalaspis fracticornis1 site
- Cephalaspis isachseni1 site
- Cephalaspis laticornis1 site
- Cephalaspis oblonga1 site
- Cephalaspis producta1 site
- Diademaspis jarviki1 site
- Gigantaspis bocki1 site
- Gigantaspis isachseni1 site
- Gigantaspis minima1 site
- Spatulaspis costata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Machairaspis isachseni, 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 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Machairaspis isachseni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Machairaspis isachseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Machairaspis isachseni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMachairaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Janvier 1985