Pseudomegalaspis

Pseudomegalaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsaphinaePBDB
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 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 457.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 44 of 44 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 5 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 5 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 4 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459.7 Mya – 458.2 Mya469.6 Mya456.7 Mya

44 occurrences of Pseudomegalaspis 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

44 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

9 formations

Elnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 59.90°N, 10.67°EElnes — 59.80°N, 10.49°EElnes — 57.99°N, 7.60°EElnes — 59.73°N, 9.87°EElnes — 59.82°N, 9.56°EElnes — 60.22°N, 10.67°EElnes — 60.74°N, 10.97°EElnes — 60.80°N, 11.12°EElnes — 60.84°N, 11.02°EKilleroed — 55.57°N, 14.13°EFolkeslunda — 57.00°N, 17.00°EFolkeslunda — 60.91°N, 15.02°EFurudal — 62.97°N, 14.48°EFurudal — 60.92°N, 15.09°EGullhogen Mudstone — 58.00°N, 14.00°EHovinsholm — 60.00°N, 11.00°EGullhögen — 58.00°N, 12.00°EFolkeslunda Limestone — 62.97°N, 14.48°EKilleröd — 55.57°N, 14.13°E

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The named rock units Pseudomegalaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudomegalaspis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudomegalaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Pseudomegalaspis, 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

9 references

Each of the 44 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 content2

Picture of Pseudomegalaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itAsaphinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaanusson 1953