Kingstonia

Kingstonia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 481.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 134 of 137 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 137 occurrencesOrdovician507–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 3 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 5 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 5 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 7 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 8 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 8 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 8 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 8 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 8 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 8 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 8 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 8 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 8 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 8 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 7 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences481–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504.5 Mya486.4 Mya507 Mya480.6 Mya

137 occurrences of Kingstonia 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

137 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

19 formations

Deadwood — 44.42°N, 103.71°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.78°WDeadwood — 44.28°N, 103.73°WDeadwood — 44.25°N, 103.57°WDeadwood — 44.07°N, 103.22°WDeadwood — 44.00°N, 103.00°WDeadwood — 44.45°N, 104.42°WDeadwood — 43.82°N, 103.77°WDeadwood — 43.72°N, 103.67°WDeadwood — 43.63°N, 103.62°WWarrior — 40.82°N, 77.93°WWarrior — 40.70°N, 78.12°WRiley — 30.64°N, 99.26°WRiley — 30.92°N, 98.61°WRiley — 30.84°N, 98.34°WRiley — 30.54°N, 99.09°WRiley — 30.49°N, 98.52°WRiley — 30.81°N, 98.37°WOrr — 38.80°N, 113.35°WOrr — 39.21°N, 113.32°WOrr — 38.54°N, 113.54°WRabbitkettle — 62.70°N, 128.38°WPetit Jardin — 48.66°N, 58.83°WPetit Jardin — 48.70°N, 58.33°WPetit Jardin — 48.72°N, 58.24°WPetit Jardin — 51.20°N, 56.75°WPetit Jardin — 48.50°N, 59.13°WPetit Jardin — 48.54°N, 58.76°WPetit Jardin — 48.47°N, 59.22°WGrosses-Roches — 48.93°N, 67.17°WWan-wan-kou — 38.35°N, 125.43°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EPilgrim — 44.66°N, 111.10°WHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WKushan — 39.67°N, 111.92°EEau Claire — 39.64°N, 86.86°WRoad River — 66.42°N, 135.53°WConococheague — 39.18°N, 78.15°WConasauga — 33.00°N, 87.00°WEast Arm — 49.50°N, 57.92°WNolichucky — 39.57°N, 106.47°WCap Mountain — 30.82°N, 98.37°W

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The named rock units Kingstonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kingstonia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kingstonia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Kingstonia, 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

25 references

Each of the 137 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Kingstonia 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 Kingstonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kingstonia 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

Licence
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. Walcott 1924