Curticia

Curticia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CurticiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497 Mya486.4 Mya507.1 Mya476.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Curticia 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

2 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

2 formations

Liuchen — 23.00°N, 110.00°ELos Sombreros — 32.00°S, 69.00°W

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The named rock units Curticia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Curticia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Curticia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Curticia, 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

Each of the 2 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 Curticia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Curticia 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 itCurticiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1905