Tuxeraspis varicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuxeraspisPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Tuxeraspis varicostata 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
2 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 Tuxeraspis varicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tuxeraspis varicostata and its relatives
DevonianWhere Tuxeraspis varicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Aphataspis kiaeri2 sites
- Argyriaspis tcherkesovae2 sites
- Eglonaspis rostrata2 sites
- Gerronaspis dentata2 sites
- Kureykaspis salebrosa2 sites
- Lecaniaspis lata2 sites
- Olbiaspis coalescens2 sites
- Siberiaspis plana2 sites
- Angaraspis1 site
- Angaraspis urvantzevi1 site
- Edaphaspis bystrowi1 site
- Gunaspis orientalis1 site
- Hibernaspis1 site
- Hibernaspis macrolepis1 site
- Putoranaspis1 site
- Putoranaspis prima1 site
- Tareyaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tuxeraspis varicostata, 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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Tuxeraspis varicostata 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 Tuxeraspis varicostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tuxeraspis varicostata 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 itTuxeraspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Novitskaya 1971