Kanoshia

Kanoshia is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, that existed during the middle Ordovician in what is now Utah, United States. It was described by Harrington in 1957, and the type species is Kanoshia kanoshensis, which was originally described under the genus Pseudomera by Hintze in 1953. It also contains the species K. depressus and K. reticulata. The generic name is derived from the type species' epithet, which in turn is derived from the name of the type locality, the Kanosh Formation.

Kanoshia

Jsnrice · 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
PliomeridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Pliomeridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 20 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 21 of 21 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 7 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 4 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477.6 Mya456.8 Mya

21 occurrences of Kanoshia 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

21 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

7 formations

Kanosh Shale — 38.85°N, 113.46°WKanosh Shale — 38.87°N, 113.42°WJuab — 39.18°N, 113.50°WShingle Limestone — 39.62°N, 115.07°WShingle Limestone — 40.75°N, 115.07°WShingle Pass — 38.20°N, 114.90°WWahwah — 38.85°N, 113.46°WFillmore — 39.84°N, 113.46°WLehman — 38.78°N, 113.59°W

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

Kanoshia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Kanoshia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Kanoshia, 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

4 references

Each of the 21 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 Kanoshia

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

No 3D scan of Kanoshia 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harrington 1957