Wijdeaspis warrooensis

Khapilin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WijdeaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Wijdeaspis warrooensis 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
- Murrindal Formation · Buchan Group1
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The named rock units Wijdeaspis warrooensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wijdeaspis warrooensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Wijdeaspis warrooensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Arenipiscis westolli1 site
- Brindabellaspis stensioi1 site
- Buchanosteus confertituberculatus1 site
- Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus1 site
- Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi1 site
- Errolosteus1 site
- Monarolepis verrucosa1 site
- Murrindalaspis wallacei1 site
- Richardosteus1 site
- Shearsbyaspis oepiki1 site
- Sherbonaspis hillsi1 site
- Taemasosteus maclartiensis1 site
- Taemasosteus novaustrocambricus1 site
- Toombsosteus denisoni1 site
- Weejasperaspis gavini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Wijdeaspis warrooensis, 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- New placoderm fishes from the Early Devonian Buchan Group, eastern Victoria1
- A new Early Devonian petalichthyid fish from the Taemas/Wee Jasper region of New South Wales1
Each 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. 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 Wijdeaspis warrooensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Khapilin
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Wijdeaspis warrooensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itWijdeaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1978