Megalaspis lata

No picture of Megalaspis lata 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 Megalaspis lata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegistaspisPBDB
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 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician471–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471.8 Mya468.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Megalaspis lata 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

10 occurrences

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

Volkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°E

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The named rock units Megalaspis lata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalaspis lata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Megalaspis lata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Megalaspis lata, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Megalaspis lata 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 Megalaspis lata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megalaspis lata 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 itMegistaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Törnquist 1884)