Rielaspis elegantula
No picture of Rielaspis elegantula was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rielaspis elegantula firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Rielaspis elegantula on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Rielaspis elegantula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rielaspis elegantula and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rielaspis elegantula and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Calymene gamachei5 sites
- Distyrax maccormicki5 sites
- Hadromeros5 sites
- Acernaspis4 sites
- Diacalymene lesperancei4 sites
- Stelckaspis perplexa4 sites
- Stenopareia4 sites
- Warburgella4 sites
- Anacaenaspis3 sites
- Dalarnepeltis dewingi3 sites
- Dalaspis pustulosa3 sites
- Encrinurus longi3 sites
- Radiurus adraini3 sites
- Acernaspis copperi2 sites
- Acernaspis orestes2 sites
- Arctinurus2 sites
- Anadesma shallopensis1 site
- Dalaspis boltoni1 site
- Ekwanoscutellum1 site
- Failleana wangi1 site
- Harpidella1 site
- Kosovopeltis1 site
- Lichidae1 site
- Maurotarion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rielaspis elegantula, 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 5 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 Rielaspis elegantula was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rielaspis elegantula firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Rielaspis elegantula was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.