Anomalocaris briggsi

No picture of Anomalocaris briggsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Anomalocaris briggsi itself, so it was not used. 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 Anomalocaris briggsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomalocarisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Anomalocaris
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Anomalocaris
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Anomalocaris

Time the record covers

At most 3.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 512.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Anomalocaris briggsi on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

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

Marsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°E

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

Anomalocaris briggsi and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Anomalocaris briggsi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anomalocaris briggsi, 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

1 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Anomalocaris briggsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Anomalocaris briggsi itself, so it was not used.

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 Anomalocaris briggsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAnomalocaris through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nedin 1995