Cliffia magnacilis
No picture of Cliffia magnacilis 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 Cliffia magnacilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CliffiaPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cliffia magnacilis 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
4 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 Cliffia magnacilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cliffia magnacilis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cliffia magnacilis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Aphelotoxon lumaleasa4 sites
- Buttsia drabensis4 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops4 sites
- Cliffia lataegenae4 sites
- Dellea suada4 sites
- Housia vacuna4 sites
- Irvingella major4 sites
- Kindbladia wichitaensis4 sites
- Kymagnostus harti4 sites
- Neoagnostus dilatus4 sites
- Pulchricapitus fetosus4 sites
- Xenocheilos minutum4 sites
- Apachia genaitholix3 sites
- Pseudokingstonia exotica3 sites
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae3 sites
- Drabia typica2 sites
- Elvinia roemeri2 sites
- Iddingsia hapsis2 sites
- Jessievillia radiatus2 sites
- Pseudosaratogia lata2 sites
- Burnetiella1 site
- Bynumina terrenda1 site
- Dellea1 site
- Dellea planafrons1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cliffia magnacilis, 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 4 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 Cliffia magnacilis 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 Cliffia magnacilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cliffia magnacilis 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 itCliffia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hohensee and Stitt 1989