Kirkella declevita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtyocephalusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 475.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
26 occurrences of Kirkella declevita 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
26 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
5 formations
- Outram Formation · McKay Group14
- Wah Wah Formation · Pogonip Group6
- Garden City Formation3
- Skoki Formation2
- Ninemile Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Kirkella declevita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kirkella declevita and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kirkella declevita and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Lachnostoma latucelsum17 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca10 sites
- Goniotelina brevis10 sites
- Pseudocybele nasuta8 sites
- Dimeropygiella caudanodosa6 sites
- Hesperonomia6 sites
- Cybelopsis5 sites
- Diparelasma5 sites
- Isoteloides saxosimontis4 sites
- Presbynileus (Presbynileus) latifrons4 sites
- Acidiphorus3 sites
- Acidiphorus brighti3 sites
- Benthamaspis diminutiva3 sites
- Forteyops sexapugia3 sites
- Pseudomera insolita3 sites
- Trilobita3 sites
- Zittelloceras3 sites
- Acidiphorus williamsi2 sites
- Isoteloides2 sites
- Lachnostoma2 sites
- Pliomeridius2 sites
- Presbynileus2 sites
- Protopliomerops radiatus2 sites
- Raphistomina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Kirkella declevita, 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
8 references- Trilobites from the Survey Peak, Outram and Skoki Formations (Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) at Wilcox Pass, Jasper National Park, Alberta)15
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from western Utah and eastern Nevadea3
- Reworking diversity: effects of storm deposition on evenness and sampled richness, Ordovician of the Basin and Range, Utah and Nevada2
- Stratigraphy of the Garden City Formation in northeastern Utah, and its trilobite faunas2
- Lower Ordovician trilobites from the uppermost McKay Group at its type section, southeastern British Columbia1
- Brachiopods from the Upper Part of the Garden City Formation (Ordovician) North-Central Utah1
- Some Middle Ordovician Brachiopods and Trilobites from the Basin Ranges, Western United States1
- Lower Ordovician detailed stratigraphic sections for western Utah1
Each of the 26 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
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No picture of Kirkella declevita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Kirkella declevita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPtyocephalus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ross 1951)