Estaingia

Estaingia

PAR · Attribution · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
EstaingiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Estaingiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 2 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence512–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521.5 Mya506 Mya

22 occurrences of Estaingia 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

22 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

Xinji — 33.38°N, 113.43°EXinji — 34.17°N, 112.80°EXinji — 34.90°N, 106.85°EShuijingtuo — 32.03°N, 109.80°EShuijingtuo — 30.47°N, 111.17°ECymbric Vale — 31.22°S, 142.33°EOraparinna Shale — 31.09°S, 138.85°EOraparinna Shale — 31.41°S, 138.53°EBilly Creek — 34.92°S, 138.58°EShackleton — 82.22°S, 160.27°EJiumenchong — 26.67°N, 108.33°EJindingshan — 27.55°N, 106.23°EBianmachong — 26.40°N, 107.88°EHotang — 28.73°N, 118.62°EMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°EParara — 31.41°S, 138.52°E

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

Estaingia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Estaingia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Estaingia, 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

14 references

Each of the 22 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Estaingia

Credit
PAR
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itEstaingiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1964