Paramegalaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsaphidaePBDB
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 least 6.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 470.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 468 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician — about 18 of 18 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 1 occurrence477–476 Mya — about 1 occurrence476–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–475 Mya — about 1 occurrence475–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–473 Mya — about 1 occurrence473–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–471 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya470.7 Mya486.9 Mya467.5 Mya

18 occurrences of Paramegalaspis 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

18 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

8 formations

Saint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.53°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ECouches du Foulon — 43.00°N, 3.00°ECouches du Foulon — 43.47°N, 3.05°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°EXiaotan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHonghuayuan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EHongsiya — 27.00°N, 102.00°ELa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°ESchistes de Saint-Chinian — 43.00°N, 3.00°E

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The named rock units Paramegalaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paramegalaspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Paramegalaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Paramegalaspis, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content0

No picture of Paramegalaspis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Paramegalaspis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thoral 1935