Tuberculaspis elyensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuberculaspisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Tuberculaspis elyensis 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tuberculaspis elyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tuberculaspis elyensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tuberculaspis elyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Aleosteus eganensis1 site
- Bryantonchus peracutus1 site
- Lamiaspis longiripa1 site
- Lingulidae1 site
- Phyllonaspis laevis1 site
- Pirumaspis lancasteri1 site
- Pteraspidinae1 site
- Ptychodictyon americanum1 site
- Sevyacanthus elliotti1 site
- Zaphoctenaspis meemannae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tuberculaspis elyensis, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tuberculaspis elyensis 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 Tuberculaspis elyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tuberculaspis elyensis 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 itTuberculaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ilyes and Elliott 1994