Catazyga anticostiensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CatazygaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anazygidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Anazygidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Anazygidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Catazyga anticostiensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
- Vauréal Formation · Anticosti Group2
- Vaureal Formation · Jolliet Group1
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The named rock units Catazyga anticostiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Catazyga anticostiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Catazyga anticostiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Anazyga recurvirostra2 sites
- Costatulites richmondensis2 sites
- Dinorthis (Pionorthis) carletona2 sites
- Megamyonia nitens2 sites
- Plectambonites sericeus2 sites
- Anazyga aequivalvis1 site
- Ceraurinus icarus1 site
- Cincinnetina meeki1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Flexicalymene meeki1 site
- Hypsiptycha janea1 site
- Idiospira1 site
- Ischyrinia winchelli1 site
- Liospira americana1 site
- Megamyonia gracilis1 site
- Onniella tricapitata1 site
- Pterinea prolifica1 site
- Ptilodictya flagella1 site
- Rhytimya emma1 site
- Rugomena planocorrugata1 site
- Sceptropora facula1 site
- Tetraphalerella hecuba1 site
- Whitella sigmoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Catazyga anticostiensis, 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- Geology of Anticosti Island2
- Acritarch biostratigraphy of Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian rocks, Anticosti Island, Québec: Preliminary results1
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. 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 Catazyga anticostiensis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Catazyga anticostiensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itCatazyga through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1862)