Gonatocaris decora

Gonatocaris decora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EmmelezoePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Silurian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceSilurian427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427.2 Mya422.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Gonatocaris decora on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1 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

1 formation

Vernon Shale — 43.08°N, 77.52°W

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

Gonatocaris decora and its relatives

Silurian

Where Gonatocaris decora and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gonatocaris decora, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gonatocaris decora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Gonatocaris decora 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 itEmmelezoe through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clarke 1901)