Menorcaspis
No picture of Menorcaspis 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 Menorcaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DrevermanniinaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Proetidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 335.9 Mya.
12 occurrences of Menorcaspis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
12 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Menorcaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Menorcaspis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Menorcaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Chlupacula (Avenconia) canpuigensis3 sites
- Drevermannia (Pseudodrevermannia) manevilai3 sites
- Drevermannia (Pseudodrevermannia) pruvosti3 sites
- Chlupacula (Avenconia)2 sites
- Semiproetus (Brevibole) trigonifrons2 sites
- Amoeboceras1 site
- Brachymetaspis coniceps1 site
- Chlupacula1 site
- Chlupacula (Chlupacula) assnitzensis1 site
- Chlupacula (Chlupacula) xesta1 site
- Cyrtoproetus (Cyrtoproetus) amaurus1 site
- Diacoryphe (Diacoryphe) pygmaea1 site
- Diacoryphe katothen1 site
- Drevermannia (Paradrevermannia) fastigata1 site
- Globusia1 site
- Goniatites1 site
- Liobole1 site
- Liobole (Liobole) angustigena1 site
- Liobole (Quadratibole) quadraticeps1 site
- Liobolina kronhofensis1 site
- Lugalella abyssa1 site
- Spinibolops1 site
- Trilobita <indet.>1 site
- Weyeraspis (Canovesia)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Menorcaspis, 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
5 references- Trilobiten aus dem Unter-Karbon des Katalonischen Kütengebirges (NE-Spanien)4
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species3
- Trilobites from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern Australia3
- Drevermanniinae (Trilobita) aus dem Aprathium (Unter_Karbon) von Menorca (Balearen, Spanien)1
- Trilobiten aus dem Karbon des Kronhof-Grabens (Karnische Alpen, Österreich).1
Each of the 12 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 Menorcaspis 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 Menorcaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Menorcaspis 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 itDrevermanniinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hahn et al. 1994