Fuchouia

Fuchouia is an extinct genus of trilobite in the family Dolichometopidae. There are about 11 described species in Fuchouia.

No picture of Fuchouia 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 Fuchouia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DolichometopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 101 of 101 occurrencesCambrian507–506 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 4 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 4 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 4 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 4 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 5 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 6 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 6 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 3 occurrences504.5 Mya500.5 Mya507 Mya496.5 Mya

101 occurrences of Fuchouia 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

101 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

10 formations

Huaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EYangliugang — 28.82°N, 118.60°EYangliugang — 32.27°N, 118.25°EXijiadian — 32.80°N, 111.45°EJialao — 26.35°N, 107.85°EKurgiakh — 33.17°N, 77.18°EKurgiakh — 33.07°N, 77.25°EBaguamiao — 32.22°N, 108.42°EAoxi — 27.63°N, 109.22°EKarsha — 33.15°N, 77.18°EMariner Group Spurs — 71.38°S, 162.83°E

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The named rock units Fuchouia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fuchouia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Fuchouia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Fuchouia, 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

12 references

Each of the 101 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 content0

No picture of Fuchouia 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 Fuchouia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Fuchouia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDolichometopidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser and Endo 1935