Rhinopteraspis

Searched as Rhinopteraspis lata. The Paleobiology Database treats Rhinopteraspis as the accepted name.

Rhinopteraspis is an extinct genus of pteraspidid heterostracan agnathan.

Rhinopteraspis

FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinopteraspididaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 2.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

1 occurrence of Rhinopteraspis 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

1 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

1 formation

Wahnbach — 50.94°N, 7.29°E

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The named rock units Rhinopteraspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhinopteraspis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhinopteraspis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rhinopteraspis, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rhinopteraspis

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhinopteraspis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itRhinopteraspididae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blieck 1984