Caznaia
No picture of Caznaia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caznaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DikelocephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dikelocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 3.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 494.2 Mya and 491 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Caznaia 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
10 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Caznaia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caznaia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Caznaia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Koldinioidia cylindrica9 sites
- Hapsidocare6 sites
- Prosaukia5 sites
- Pseudagnostus5 sites
- Pseudagnostus clarki patulus5 sites
- Atopasaphus4 sites
- Atratebia nexosa4 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Sigmakainella4 sites
- Ceronocare3 sites
- Plecteuloma strix3 sites
- Pagodia (Lotosoides)2 sites
- Pseudagnostus clarki ? patulus2 sites
- Pseudagnostus clarki prolatus2 sites
- Rhaptagnostus elix2 sites
- Sigmakainella translira2 sites
- Duplora clara1 site
- Euloma (Plecteuloma)1 site
- Idahoiid <indet>1 site
- Lorrettina macrops1 site
- Mendosina1 site
- Pagodia1 site
- Richardsonella1 site
- Wuhuia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Caznaia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Caznaia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caznaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDikelocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shergold 1975