Traquairaspidiformes

Traquairaspidiformes is an order of extinct heterostracan agnathan fish known from the Silurian and Early Devonian periods. Fossils are predominantly known from Late Silurian fluvial deposits from Wales and England: some species were also found in strata representing shallow water marine environment in Canada and North America.

Traquairaspidiformes

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 20 of 23 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 6 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 6 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya413.02 Mya427.5 Mya387.2 Mya

23 occurrences of Traquairaspidiformes 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

23 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

11 formations

Psammosteus Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.54°WPsammosteus Limestone — 52.53°N, 2.61°WPsammosteus Limestone — 52.09°N, 2.87°WPsammosteus Limestone — 51.94°N, 3.40°WPod''emnaya — 79.50°N, 96.00°EDniester — 48.69°N, 25.62°EDniester — 48.80°N, 25.61°EFreshwater West — 52.48°N, 2.64°WSt. Maughans — 52.00°N, 2.00°WSpokojnaya — 79.50°N, 96.00°EOld Red Sandstone — 51.86°N, 2.73°WPeel Sound — 73.79°N, 98.58°WIvanie — 48.67°N, 25.76°ELower Red Downton Sandstone — 52.06°N, 3.02°WRaglan Marl — 51.71°N, 2.51°W

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The named rock units Traquairaspidiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Traquairaspidiformes and its relatives

Devonian

Where Traquairaspidiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Traquairaspidiformes, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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

Media content1

Picture of Traquairaspidiformes

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Apokryltaros
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Traquairaspidiformes 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.

The description on this site

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stensio 1958