Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides
No picture of Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides 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 Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EkeraspisPBDB
- 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 9.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 484.3 Mya and 474.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides 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
2 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
- Survey Peak Formation · McKay Group1
- Florentine Valley Formation1
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The named rock units Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Asaphopsoides florentinensis1 site
- Macluritella uniangulata1 site
- Nanorthis carinata1 site
- Pilekiinae1 site
- Protopliomerops1 site
- Ptyocephalus1 site
- Tasmanaspis lewisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides, 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- Tremadoc trilobites from the Florentine Valley Formation, Tim Shea area, Tasmania1
- The Ordovician fossils from the McKay group in British Columbia, western Canada, with a note on the early Ordovician palaeogeography1
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. 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
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No picture of Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides 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 Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) euclides 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 itEkeraspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1925)