Elburgia
No picture of Elburgia 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 Elburgia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElviniidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Elviniidae
- 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.
29 occurrences of Elburgia 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
29 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
10 formations
- Orr Formation10
- Nopah Formation7
- Dunderberg Shale Formation3
- Rabbitkettle Formation2
- Jones Ridge Limestone Formation2
- Tybo Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Elburgia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elburgia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elburgia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Dunderbergia6 sites
- Homagnostus5 sites
- Pseudagnostus communis5 sites
- Aphelotoxon acuminata4 sites
- Dytremacephalus4 sites
- Olenus4 sites
- Strigambitus4 sites
- Acrotretida3 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops3 sites
- Morosa brevispina3 sites
- Olenaspella evansi3 sites
- Sigmocheilus3 sites
- Strigambitus blepharina3 sites
- Aphelotoxon2 sites
- Apsotreta2 sites
- Dokimocephaliidae <sp. indet.>2 sites
- Dunderbergia polybothra2 sites
- Elvinia2 sites
- Erixanium2 sites
- Iddingsia intermedia2 sites
- Lingulida2 sites
- Litocephalus granulomarginatus2 sites
- Morosa2 sites
- Oncagnostus tumidosus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Elburgia, 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
9 references- Upper Cambrian Orr Formation: Its Subdivisions and Correlatives in Western Utah9
- Trilobites of the Late Cambrian Pterocephaliid Biomere in the Great Basin, United States6
- Stratigraphy and structure, Death Valley, California4
- Cambrian trilobites from the Nounan Dolomite and lower St. Charles Formation (upper Marjuman to lower Sunwaptan; Miaolingian to Furongian Series), Smithfield Canyon, northern Utah2
- Trilobites of the Marjuman and Steptoean stages (Upper Cambrian), Rabbitkettle Formation, southern Mackenzie Mountains, northwest Canada2
- Outer shelf communities and trophic groups in the Upper Cambrian of the Great Basin2
- Cambrian trilobites of East-Central Alaska2
- Day 2: Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional environments, Hot Creek Range, Nevada1
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Dunderberg Shale, Eureka District, Nevada1
Each of the 29 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
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No picture of Elburgia 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 Elburgia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elburgia 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 itElviniidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1960