Houcaris saron
No picture of Houcaris saron was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Houcaris saron itself, so it was not used. 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 Houcaris saron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HoucarisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Radiodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Radiodonta
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Radiodonta
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Houcaris saron 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
17 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Houcaris saron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Houcaris saron and its relatives
CambrianWhere Houcaris saron and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
202 taxa- Leanchoilia illecebrosa10 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis9 sites
- Diandongia pista9 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta9 sites
- Isoxys auritus9 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata9 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata8 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei8 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis8 sites
- Naraoia spinosa8 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma8 sites
- Selkirkia sinica8 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis8 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata7 sites
- Choiaella radiata7 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis7 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis7 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus7 sites
- Naraoia7 sites
- Saetaspongia densa7 sites
- Waptia ovata7 sites
- Archotuba conoidalis6 sites
- Burithes yunnanensis6 sites
- Ercaicunia multinodosa6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Houcaris saron, 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
6 references- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China7
- Luo et al., 20084
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China2
- Anomalocaris and other large animals in the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna of southwest China2
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina1
Each of the 17 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Sentient_Cale-Sherry
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Houcaris saron was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Houcaris saron itself, so it was not used.
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 Houcaris saron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHoucaris through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hou et al. 1995)