Kainella conica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KainellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 450 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
7 occurrences of Kainella conica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian20%
- Ordovician80%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kainella conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kainella conica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kainella conica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Asaphellus catamarcensis4 sites
- Parabolina argentina4 sites
- Parabolinella argentinensis4 sites
- Angelina hyeronimi3 sites
- Asaphellus riojanus3 sites
- Kainella meridionalis3 sites
- Onychopyge riojana3 sites
- Shumardia erquensis3 sites
- Dubhglasina depressus2 sites
- Geragnostus (Microagnostus) calviformis2 sites
- Machairagnostus tmetus2 sites
- Onychopyge2 sites
- Parabolina pheidolopyge2 sites
- Plicatolina scalpta2 sites
- Pseudokainella lata2 sites
- Rhadinopleura eurycephala2 sites
- Sphaerocare globifrons2 sites
- Angelina1 site
- Angelina kayseri1 site
- Apatokephalus serratus1 site
- Bodenbenderia longifrons1 site
- Brackebuschia1 site
- Ciceragnostus iruyensis1 site
- Gallagnostus bolivianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kainella conica, 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
2 references- Ordovician trilobites of Argentina6
- La transicion Cambrico-Ordovicico en la Formacion Volcancito (sierra de Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina)1
Each of the 7 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
Picture of Kainella conica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kainella conica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKainella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kobayashi 1935