Miraspis cornuta
No picture of Miraspis cornuta 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 Miraspis cornuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiraspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odontopleuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Miraspis cornuta 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- Ordovician50%
- Silurian50%
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 Miraspis cornuta 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.
Miraspis cornuta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Miraspis cornuta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Acernaspis1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Dekalymene crassa1 site
- Exallaspis varbolensis1 site
- Hadromeros elongatus1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Johntempleia1 site
- Lichida1 site
- Stenopareia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Miraspis cornuta, 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- The Llandovery trilobites of England and Wales. Part 11
- A Revision of the Swedish Ordovician Odontopleuridae (Trilobita)1
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 Miraspis cornuta 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 Miraspis cornuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miraspis cornuta 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.
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What may have been alongside itMiraspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beyrich 1846)