Caveacus
No picture of Caveacus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Caveacus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblematicaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 525.5 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Caveacus 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
9 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Caveacus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caveacus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Caveacus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Micromitra7 sites
- Conotheca australiensis6 sites
- Eccentrotheca kanesia6 sites
- Sunnaginia imbricata6 sites
- Camenella baltica5 sites
- Coleoloides typicalis5 sites
- Torellella laevigata5 sites
- Hyolithes4 sites
- Ladatheca cylindrica4 sites
- Allatheca degeeri3 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis3 sites
- Halkieria3 sites
- Hertzina3 sites
- Lapworthella3 sites
- Camenella reticulosa2 sites
- Cupitheca2 sites
- Gapparodus2 sites
- Gracilitheca bayonet2 sites
- Hypiotheca sp.2 sites
- Jaycea2 sites
- Protohertzina anabarica2 sites
- Selindeochrea tricarinata2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) walcotti1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Caveacus, 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 referenceEach of the 9 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
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No picture of Caveacus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Caveacus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caveacus 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 itProblematica through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.