Buttsia drabensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ButtsiaPBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
36 occurrences of Buttsia drabensis 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
36 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Buttsia drabensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Buttsia drabensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Buttsia drabensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Cliffia lataegenae26 sites
- Dellea21 sites
- Deckera completa16 sites
- Irvingella major12 sites
- Dellea suada8 sites
- Drabia acroccipita8 sites
- Pinctus latus8 sites
- Pseudosaratogia8 sites
- Deadwoodia duris7 sites
- Elvinia roemeri7 sites
- Kindbladia wichitaensis7 sites
- Housia vacuna6 sites
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae6 sites
- Aphelotoxon lumaleasa5 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops5 sites
- Kymagnostus harti5 sites
- Neoagnostus dilatus5 sites
- Pulchricapitus fetosus5 sites
- Xenocheilos minutum5 sites
- Cliffia magnacilis4 sites
- Drabia typica4 sites
- Glaphyraspis ovata4 sites
- Imlerella4 sites
- Pseudokingstonia exotica4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Buttsia drabensis, 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
7 references- High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia13
- New trilobite taxa from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the central Appalachians11
- Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas5
- Trilobite faunas from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the Central Appalachians3
- Enrolled Late Cambrian trilobites from the Davis Formation, southeast Missouri2
- Geological implications of Late Cambrian trilobites from the Collier Shale, Jessieville area, Arkansas1
- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites Wichita Mountains area, Oklahoma1
Each of the 36 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
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No picture of Buttsia drabensis 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 Buttsia drabensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Buttsia drabensis 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 itButtsia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1951