Housia vacuna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HousiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Pterocephaliidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 493.5 Mya to 490.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
25 occurrences of Housia vacuna 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
25 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 Housia vacuna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Housia vacuna and its relatives
CambrianWhere Housia vacuna and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Irvingella major17 sites
- Cliffia lataegenae16 sites
- Kindbladia wichitaensis14 sites
- Elvinia roemeri13 sites
- Dellea10 sites
- Dellea suada9 sites
- Kymagnostus harti9 sites
- Neoagnostus dilatus9 sites
- Aphelotoxon lumaleasa8 sites
- Pulchricapitus fetosus8 sites
- Xenocheilos minutum8 sites
- Deadwoodia duris7 sites
- Pterocephalia sanctisabae7 sites
- Buttsia drabensis6 sites
- Bynumina terrenda6 sites
- Xenocheilos spineum6 sites
- Cheilocephalus brachyops5 sites
- Deckera completa5 sites
- Pseudokingstonia exotica5 sites
- Cliffia magnacilis4 sites
- Drabia4 sites
- Iddingsia anatina4 sites
- Pseudosaratogia lata4 sites
- Saratogia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Housia vacuna, 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- Redeposited Elvinia Zone (Upper Cambrian) trilobites from the Collier Shale, Ouachita Mountains, west-central Arkansas10
- High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia7
- New trilobite taxa from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the central Appalachians3
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta3
- Mid-Furongian trilobites and agnostids from the Wujiajiania lyndasmithae Subzone of the Elvinia Zone, McKay Group, southeastern British Columbia, Canada1
- Geological implications of Late Cambrian trilobites from the Collier Shale, Jessieville area, Arkansas1
Each of the 25 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 Housia vacuna 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 Housia vacuna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Housia vacuna 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 itHousia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1890)