Paraperaspis dawangouensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaperaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Nileidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 452.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Paraperaspis dawangouensis 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
12 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paraperaspis dawangouensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraperaspis dawangouensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Paraperaspis dawangouensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Shumardia tarimuensis8 sites
- Birmanites kanlingensis5 sites
- Lisogorites tarimensis5 sites
- Taklamakania xinjiangensis5 sites
- Tarimella bituberculata5 sites
- Mendolaspis paradoidyx4 sites
- Nanshanaspis tarimuensis4 sites
- Microparia (Quadratapyge) chedaoensis3 sites
- Telephina3 sites
- Telephina angulata3 sites
- Birmanites2 sites
- Geragnostus (Novoagnostus) contractus2 sites
- Lisogorites2 sites
- Sphaeragnostus similaris2 sites
- Trinodus2 sites
- Zhenganites xinjiangensis2 sites
- Dionide miaopoensis1 site
- Dividuagnostus minus1 site
- Endymionia semielliptica1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
- Platyptychopyge cf. quadrata1 site
- Rhombampyx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Paraperaspis dawangouensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Paraperaspis dawangouensis 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 Paraperaspis dawangouensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraperaspis dawangouensis 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 itParaperaspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhou et al. 2014