Rhinopteraspis dunensis
No picture of Rhinopteraspis dunensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhinopteraspis dunensis itself, so it was not used. 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 Rhinopteraspis dunensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinopteraspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhinopteraspis dunensis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Rhinopteraspis dunensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhinopteraspis dunensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Rhinopteraspis dunensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- ? Protaspis rotunda2 sites
- Arthrodira2 sites
- Acanthodii1 site
- Adelophthalmus sievertsi1 site
- Alkenia mirabilis1 site
- Alkenopterus brevitelson1 site
- Ankylacanthus convexus1 site
- Archaeomartus levis1 site
- Archaeometa1 site
- Carcinosoma1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Dawsonites1 site
- Diploaspis casteri1 site
- Drepanaspis1 site
- Drepanaspis schrieli1 site
- Drepanophycus spinaeformis1 site
- Drepanopterus struvei1 site
- Eoarthropleura1 site
- Heteroaspis stoermeri1 site
- Hildenaspis digitalis1 site
- Jaekelopterus rhenaniae1 site
- Limoptera1 site
- Modiolopsida indet.1 site
- Moselopterus ancylotelson1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhinopteraspis dunensis, 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
3 references- The Osteostraci (Vertebrate, Agnatha) from the Lower Devonian of the Rhenish Slate Mountains, with special reference to their anatomy and phylogenetic position2
- The head shield of Tiaraspis subtilis (Gross) [Pisces, Arthrodira]1
- Arthropods from the Lower Devonian (Lower Emsian) of Alken an der Mosel, Germany. Part 5: Myriapoda and additional forms, with general remarks on fauna and problems regarding invasion of land by arthropods1
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. 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
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No picture of Rhinopteraspis dunensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhinopteraspis dunensis itself, so it was not used.
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 Rhinopteraspis dunensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhinopteraspis dunensis 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 itRhinopteraspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1919