Cliffia

Cliffia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhylacteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Phylacteridae
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.

Cambrian — about 75 of 75 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 75 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 4 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 4 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 4 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 4 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 4 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences493.5 Mya490.2 Mya497.5 Mya486.4 Mya

75 occurrences of Cliffia 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

75 occurrences

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

12 formations

Gatesburg — 40.02°N, 78.50°WGatesburg — 40.38°N, 78.20°WGatesburg — 40.76°N, 77.18°WGatesburg — 41.38°N, 75.46°WGatesburg — 41.80°N, 78.68°WCollier Shale — 35.00°N, 93.00°WCollier Shale — 34.67°N, 93.23°WCollier Shale — 34.71°N, 92.98°WCollier Shale — 34.68°N, 93.08°WDavis — 37.93°N, 90.73°WDavis — 37.84°N, 90.53°WReagan Sandstone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WOpen Door — 43.28°N, 109.83°WBison Creek — 51.50°N, 116.20°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WUnit H — 49.67°N, 115.35°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.26°WSt. Charles — 41.90°N, 111.70°WHoney Creek Limestone — 34.39°N, 97.12°W

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The named rock units Cliffia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cliffia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cliffia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Cliffia, 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

18 references

Each of the 75 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Cliffia

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 Cliffia 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 itPhylacteridae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1951