Mucronaspis grandis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MucronaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.1 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mucronaspis grandis 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
4 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
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The named rock units Mucronaspis grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mucronaspis grandis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mucronaspis grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Cyrtodiscus evolvens3 sites
- Decipilites3 sites
- Mucronaspis ganabina3 sites
- Sluha kosoviensis3 sites
- Aegiria2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Duftonia2 sites
- Metabolograptus ojsuensis2 sites
- Straparollina infida2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
- Acrosaccus squamosus1 site
- Actinopeltis1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Anoptambonites monetus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Cheirocrinus1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Dindymene1 site
- Echinosphaeronites <sp. 1>1 site
- Echinosphaeronites <sp. 2>1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mucronaspis grandis, 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- Kralodvor-Kosoviensis boundary at the Late Ordovician environmental changes in the Prague Basin (Barrandian Area, Bohemia)3
- Representatives of genera Mucronaspis and Songxites (Trilobita) from the Bohemian Upper Ordovician1
Each of the 4 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 Mucronaspis grandis 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 Mucronaspis grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mucronaspis grandis 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 itMucronaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1852)