Ankitokazocaris

No picture of Ankitokazocaris 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 Ankitokazocaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThylacocephalaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Thylacocephala
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Thylacocephala

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 239.48 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic249–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247 Mya241.464 Mya249.1 Mya239 Mya

10 occurrences of Ankitokazocaris on record. 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

10 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

3 formations

Buchenstein — 45.94°N, 9.39°EBuchenstein — 46.45°N, 12.09°EOsawa — 38.81°N, 141.55°EOsawa — 38.71°N, 141.54°ENanlinghu — 31.62°N, 117.82°E

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The named rock units Ankitokazocaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Ankitokazocaris, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ankitokazocaris 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 Ankitokazocaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ankitokazocaris 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 itThylacocephala through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arduini 1990