Stensiopelta woodwardi
No picture of Stensiopelta woodwardi 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 Stensiopelta woodwardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StensiopeltaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Stensiopelta woodwardi 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
3 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
2 formations
- Freshwater West Formation2
- St. Maughans Formation · Ditton Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Stensiopelta woodwardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stensiopelta woodwardi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Stensiopelta woodwardi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Cephalaspis1 site
- Cephalaspis (Cwmaspis) billcrofti1 site
- Cephalaspis abergavenniensis1 site
- Cephalaspis cradleyensis1 site
- Cephalaspis cwmmillensis1 site
- Climatiidae1 site
- Goniporus alatus1 site
- Ischnacanthiformes1 site
- Phialaspis symondsi1 site
- Pteraspis rostrata1 site
- Rhinopteraspis crouchi1 site
- Weigeltaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stensiopelta woodwardi, 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
2 references- The Cephalaspids of Great Britain2
- Chapter 4. Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Stensiopelta woodwardi 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 Stensiopelta woodwardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stensiopelta woodwardi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStensiopelta through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Denison 1951