Kingaspidoides alberti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingaspidoidesPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 503 Mya and 500.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Kingaspidoides alberti 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Kingaspidoides alberti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kingaspidoides alberti and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kingaspidoides alberti and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis6 sites
- Parasolenopleura wurmi6 sites
- Ornamentaspis crassilimbata4 sites
- Grantitheca3 sites
- Hexitheca3 sites
- Hyolitha3 sites
- Jincelites vogeli3 sites
- Acadoparadoxides2 sites
- Cambrachelous diploprosopus2 sites
- Parasolenopleura parabolica2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) franconica1 site
- Aladraco schloppensis1 site
- Enixus juvenis1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Hyolithidae1 site
- Indiana1 site
- Kingaspidoides meieri1 site
- Ornamentaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kingaspidoides alberti, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Kingaspidoides alberti 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 Kingaspidoides alberti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kingaspidoides alberti 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 itKingaspidoides through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 2017