Hurdia

Hurdia is an extinct genus of hurdiid radiodont that lived 505 million years ago during the Cambrian Period. Fossils have been found in North America, China, and the Czech Republic.

Hurdia

Junnn11 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
HurdiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Radiodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Radiodonta
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Radiodonta

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 514.5 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 32 of 32 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 5 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 5 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 5 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 5 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514.5 Mya504.5 Mya521.5 Mya496.5 Mya

32 occurrences of Hurdia 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

32 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

6 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.05°WStephen — 51.45°N, 116.32°WJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°ELangston — 41.59°N, 112.04°WBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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

Hurdia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Hurdia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

295 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Hurdia, 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

9 references

Each of the 32 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 content2

Picture of Hurdia

Credit
Junnn11
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHurdiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912