Kweichowilla
No picture of Kweichowilla was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Kweichowilla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ShumardiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Shumardiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Kweichowilla 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
6 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
- Las Aguaditas Formation2
- Jianchaogou Formation1
- Yinpingshan Formation1
- Los Azules Formation1
- Las Chacritas Formation1
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The named rock units Kweichowilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kweichowilla and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kweichowilla and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Changchowilla2 sites
- Chomatopyge canasi2 sites
- Nankinolithus2 sites
- Pliomerina2 sites
- Aegiromenidae1 site
- Amplexograptus manitoulinensis1 site
- Ampyxinella1 site
- Anazyga1 site
- Anomaloglossa1 site
- Bockelia canalis1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Carolinites pardensis1 site
- Ceraurinella zhoui1 site
- Chilcorthis huarpe1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Cyrtonotreta1 site
- Cyrtonotreta vasculata1 site
- Dicellograptus elegans1 site
- Finkelnburgiidae1 site
- Foliomena xinjiangensis1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Harebayaspis pengi1 site
- Kassinella tarimensis1 site
- Lasarchopyge correae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Kweichowilla, 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
4 references- Systematics of Shumardiidae (Trilobita), with new species from the Ordovician of Argentina3
- A Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) dysaerobic brachiopod assemblage from the Precordillera terrane of Argentina: implications for early colonization of deep waters1
- Discovery of a Late Ordovician Foliomena fauna in the Tarim desert, Northwest China1
- Regional stratigraphic table of the southwestern region of China, Guizhou part1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Kweichowilla was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Kweichowilla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kweichowilla 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itShumardiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1964