Kutorgina

Searched as Kutorgina granulata n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Kutorgina as the accepted name.

Kutorginates (Kutorginata) are an extinct class of early rhynchonelliform ("articulate") brachiopods. The class contains only a single order, Kutorginida (kutorginides). Kutorginides were among the earliest rhynchonelliforms, restricted to the lower-middle part of the Cambrian Period.

Kutorgina

C.D. Walcott · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
KutorginidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Kutorginida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Kutorginida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Kutorginida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Kutorginata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 516.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Kutorgina 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

1 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

Fosters Point — 48.16°N, 53.70°W

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

Kutorgina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kutorgina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Kutorgina, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Kutorgina

Credit
C.D. Walcott
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kutorgina 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.

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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What may have been alongside itKutorginidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1861)