Saaremaaspis mickwitzi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaaremaaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Saaremaaspis mickwitzi 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Saaremaaspis mickwitzi 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.
Saaremaaspis mickwitzi and its relatives
SilurianWhere Saaremaaspis mickwitzi and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Paralogania martinssoni5 sites
- Thelodus laevis5 sites
- Tremataspis schmidti5 sites
- Tremataspis milleri4 sites
- Ctenognathodus murchisoni3 sites
- Oeselaspis pustulata3 sites
- Oeselia3 sites
- Oulodus excavatus3 sites
- Oulodus siluricus3 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica3 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens3 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri3 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida3 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula3 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii3 sites
- Schidiosteus mustelensis3 sites
- Thyestes verrucosus3 sites
- Witaaspis schrenckii3 sites
- Wurmiella excavata3 sites
- Aestiaspis viitaensis2 sites
- Ctenognathodus2 sites
- Meelaidaspis gennadii2 sites
- Rhyncholepis butriangula2 sites
- Thelodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saaremaaspis mickwitzi, 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- End-Wenlock terminal Mulde carbon isotope excursion in Gotland, Sweden: Integration of stratigraphy and taphonomy for correlations across restricted facies and specialized faunas3
- Distribution of vertebrates in the Silurian of Estonia2
- New Genera of Ostracoderms from the Upper Silurian of Oesel1
Each of the 6 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 Saaremaaspis mickwitzi 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 Saaremaaspis mickwitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saaremaaspis mickwitzi 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 itSaaremaaspis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robertson 1938