Zlichovaspis

Zlichovaspis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DalmanitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phacopina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dalmanitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 38 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 37 of 38 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 6 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 10 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 1 occurrence408–406 Mya — about 1 occurrence406–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–403 Mya — about 1 occurrence403–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–400 Mya — about 1 occurrence400–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya399.5 Mya427.6 Mya381.4 Mya

38 occurrences of Zlichovaspis 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

38 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

18 formations

Zlichov Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZlichov Limestone — 49.50°N, 14.33°EBou Regreg Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WKess Kess — 31.75°N, 4.50°WIhandar — 30.84°N, 4.92°WMount Ida — 36.75°S, 144.76°EBois d'Arc — 34.50°N, 96.50°WVinarice Limestone — 50.00°N, 14.00°EHumevale — 37.50°S, 145.50°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°ERechoua Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WTiflet Limestone — 34.03°N, 6.85°WMegrane Shale — 31.90°N, 3.13°WHamar Laghdad Limestone — 31.38°N, 4.07°WTafilalt Limestone — 31.75°N, 4.50°WAin Targa — 33.12°N, 7.93°WKalkgrauwacke — 50.82°N, 8.77°EReun Ar C'Hrank — 48.40°N, 4.48°WSlivenec Limestone — 49.99°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Zlichovaspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zlichovaspis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Zlichovaspis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

651 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Zlichovaspis, 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

12 references

Each of the 38 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 content2

Picture of Zlichovaspis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pribyl and Vanek 1971)