Traquairaspis pustulata
No picture of Traquairaspis pustulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Traquairaspis pustulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TraquairaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 28 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Traquairaspis pustulata 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 occurrencesThese 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 Traquairaspis pustulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Traquairaspis pustulata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Traquairaspis pustulata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Archegonaspis2 sites
- Cyathaspididae2 sites
- Heterostraci2 sites
- Asketaspis interstincta1 site
- Corvaspis1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Homalaspidella1 site
- Lingulidae1 site
- Natlaspis planicosta1 site
- Pionaspis amplissima1 site
- Poraspidinae1 site
- Poraspis polaris1 site
- Traquairaspis adunata1 site
- Traquairaspis broadi1 site
- Traquairaspis guttata1 site
- Traquairaspis lemniscata1 site
- Traquairaspis mackenziensis1 site
- Traquairaspis poolei1 site
- Traquairaspis retusa1 site
- Vernonaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Traquairaspis pustulata, 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 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
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No picture of Traquairaspis pustulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Traquairaspis pustulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Traquairaspis pustulata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTraquairaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dineley and Loeffler 1976