Buttsia

Buttsia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 61 of 63 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 2 of 63 occurrencesOrdovician505–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 6 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 7 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 7 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 7 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 7 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 7 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–490 Mya — about 1 occurrence490–489 Mya — about 5 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 5 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 4 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499.5 Mya475.3 Mya505.2 Mya470.6 Mya

63 occurrences of Buttsia 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

63 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

12 formations

Gatesburg — 40.02°N, 78.50°WGatesburg — 40.17°N, 78.41°WGatesburg — 40.38°N, 78.20°WGatesburg — 40.76°N, 77.18°WGatesburg — 41.38°N, 75.46°WGatesburg — 41.80°N, 78.68°WHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°ECollier Shale — 35.00°N, 93.00°WCollier Shale — 34.71°N, 92.99°WDavis — 37.84°N, 90.53°WDiringde Reef Massif — 68.38°N, 103.17°EHuayansi — 28.82°N, 118.60°EChukuk — 67.58°N, 113.90°ESanta Rosita — 23.00°S, 66.00°WKul'bich — 51.97°N, 85.97°EPerekhod — 51.97°N, 85.97°EValhallfonna — 79.80°N, 17.76°EReagan Sandstone — 34.82°N, 98.41°W

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The named rock units Buttsia 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.

Buttsia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Buttsia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Buttsia, 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

17 references

Each of the 63 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Buttsia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buttsia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itCatillicephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1951