Physemataspis coopi
No picture of Physemataspis coopi 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 Physemataspis coopi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhysemataspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Physemataspis coopi 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- 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 Physemataspis coopi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Physemataspis coopi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Physemataspis coopi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Ampyx virginiensis2 sites
- Apianurus barbatus2 sites
- Apianurus glaber2 sites
- Bevanopsis ulrichi2 sites
- Calipernurus insolitus2 sites
- Calyptaulax callirachis2 sites
- Ceratocephala laciniata2 sites
- Ceraurinella typa2 sites
- Chomatopyge falcata2 sites
- Diacanthaspis lepidus2 sites
- Diacanthaspis secretus2 sites
- Dolichoharpes reticulata2 sites
- Holia cimelia2 sites
- Libertella corona2 sites
- Lonchodomas carinatus2 sites
- Mesotaphraspis parva2 sites
- Physemataspis tholus2 sites
- Remopleurides caelatus2 sites
- Remopleurides caphyroides2 sites
- Remopleurides eximius2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe gemina2 sites
- Sphaerocoryphe longispina2 sites
- Stenoblepharum strasburgense2 sites
- Tretaspis sagenosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Physemataspis coopi, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Physemataspis coopi 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 Physemataspis coopi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Physemataspis coopi 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 itPhysemataspis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evitt and Tripp 1977