Kaotaia

No picture of Kaotaia 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 Kaotaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopariidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCambrian515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515 Mya496.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Kaotaia 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

20 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

Kaili — 26.40°N, 107.88°EKaili — 26.73°N, 108.42°EParahio — 32.03°N, 77.90°EDouposi — 27.55°N, 106.23°EGaotai — 27.62°N, 107.37°EKaotai — 26.24°N, 107.62°EMaochuang — 34.80°N, 111.90°ETianpeng — 23.48°N, 103.78°E

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

Kaotaia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kaotaia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Kaotaia, 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

7 references

Each of the 20 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 Kaotaia 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 Kaotaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kaotaia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lu 1962