Kutorginida

C.D. Walcott · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- KutorginataPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Kutorginata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 43 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 468 Mya.
150 occurrences of Kutorginida 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
150 occurrences- Cambrian98%
- Ordovician2%
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
57 formations
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group22
- Kinzers Formation12
- Nimra Formation10
- Parker Slate Formation8
- Poleta Formation5
- Shady Formation5
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The named rock units Kutorginida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kutorginida and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kutorginida and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
716 taxa- Nisusia45 sites
- Lingulella24 sites
- Micromitra24 sites
- Diraphora22 sites
- Kootenia22 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus20 sites
- Hazelia20 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis19 sites
- Liangshanella19 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens19 sites
- Scenella amii19 sites
- Selkirkia columbia19 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata19 sites
- Marrella splendens18 sites
- Ottoia prolifica18 sites
- Paterina18 sites
- Sidneyia18 sites
- Trilobita18 sites
- Yohoia18 sites
- Burgessia17 sites
- Chancelloria eros17 sites
- Laggania17 sites
- Morania17 sites
- Tubullela sp.17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Kutorginida, 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
58 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale19
- Lower Cambrian brachiopods from the Rift Valley (Isreal and Jordan)15
- Geology of the Hanover-York District Pennsylvania9
- Cambrian Brachiopoda from Montana8
- Cambrian rhynchonelliform nisusioid brachiopods: phylogeny and distribution6
- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]6
- The evolutionary significance of Nisusia sulcata, an early articulate brachiopod5
- Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. VI. The early Middle Cambrian fauna5
- Cambrian Brachiopoda5
- Lower and Middle Cambrian fossils from the Shady Fm., Austinville, VA3
- Paleontology of northwestern Vermont. IX. Fauna of the Monkton Quartzite3
- Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. V. The Lower Cambrian Fauna3
Each of the 150 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. 46 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 content1

Picture of Kutorginida
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- C.D. Walcott
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kutorginida 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itKutorginata through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kühn 1949