Kingstonia gaspensis
No picture of Kingstonia gaspensis 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 gaspensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingstoniaPBDB
- 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 most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Kingstonia gaspensis 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
2 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 Kingstonia gaspensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kingstonia gaspensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kingstonia gaspensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Hemirhodon2 sites
- Amquia1 site
- Blountia1 site
- Blountia gaspensis1 site
- Blountia nasuta1 site
- Catillicephala1 site
- Catillicephala lata1 site
- Cedaria1 site
- Coosella1 site
- Holcacephalus1 site
- Kingstonia walcotti1 site
- Kormagnostus seclusus1 site
- Lecanopleura punctata1 site
- Menomonia1 site
- Meteoraspis borealis1 site
- Tricrepicephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Kingstonia gaspensis, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Kingstonia gaspensis 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 gaspensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kingstonia gaspensis 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 itKingstonia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1946