Caborcella reducta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaborcellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Caborcella reducta 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Caborcella reducta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caborcella reducta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Caborcella reducta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Amecephalus arrojosensis2 sites
- Fieldaspis bilobata2 sites
- Nyella rara2 sites
- Albertelloides rectimarginatus1 site
- Caborcella pseudaulax1 site
- Chancia venusta1 site
- Corynexochida1 site
- Kootenia germana1 site
- Mexicella robusta1 site
- Pachyaspis gallagari1 site
- Pagetia resseri1 site
- Poliella lomataspis1 site
- Ptychopariida1 site
- Volocephalina connexa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Caborcella reducta, 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
2 references- Trilobites of the lower Middle Cambrian Poliella denticulata biozone (new) of southeastern Nevada2
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Caborcella reducta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Caborcella reducta 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 itCaborcella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer and Halley 1979