Kootenia spencei

Kootenia spencei

Jamison, Paul · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KooteniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Kootenia
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Kootenia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Kootenia
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dorypygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCambrian510–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510.2 Mya504.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Kootenia spencei 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

3 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

1 formation

Lead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°W

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

Kootenia spencei and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kootenia spencei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kootenia spencei, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Kootenia spencei

Source
GBIF
Credit
Jamison, Paul
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1939