Luia
No picture of Luia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Luia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnomocarellidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Anomocarellidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 484 million years on record.
The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
4 occurrences of Luia 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Luia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Luia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Luia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Abia paurocephala1 site
- Abia shandongensis1 site
- Abia shanwangensis1 site
- Agrilus corrugatus1 site
- Aksarinaia triquetra1 site
- Alifasciola daedalea1 site
- Aliscarabaeus granulatus1 site
- Anomala1 site
- Anomala furva1 site
- Anomala lochmocola1 site
- Anomala palaeobrunnea1 site
- Anomala synemosyna1 site
- Apanechura asecta1 site
- Aphaena lithoecia1 site
- Apis (Synapis) miocenica1 site
- Araneus piceus1 site
- Araneus ruidipedalis1 site
- Atactogaster granulata1 site
- Atactogaster shanwangensis1 site
- Bibio brunneus1 site
- Bibio bullatus1 site
- Bibio cratopodus1 site
- Bibio deformatus1 site
- Bibio expansus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Luia, 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
3 references- Cambrian Malyy Karatau Range, Kazakhstan2
- Zhang, 19891
- Cambrian trilobites from Xijiadian, Junxian, Hubei1
Each of the 4 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 Luia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Luia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Luia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnomocarellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang 1959