Naraoia taijiangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NaraoiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naraoia
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Naraoia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naraoia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Nektaspidida
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Naraoia taijiangensis 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Naraoia taijiangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Naraoia taijiangensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Naraoia taijiangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Arthricocephalus chauveaui2 sites
- Changaspis elongata2 sites
- Duyunaspis duyunensis2 sites
- Alalcomenaeus1 site
- Allonnia1 site
- Ancalagon1 site
- Archotuba1 site
- Arthricocephalus1 site
- Arthricocephalus (Arthricocephalites)1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Artiopoda1 site
- Askepasma1 site
- Balangia balangensis1 site
- Banffozoa1 site
- Breviredlichia1 site
- Cambrohydra ercaia1 site
- Cambrovitus1 site
- Canadaspididae1 site
- Caryosyntrips camurus1 site
- Caryosyntrips serratus1 site
- Chaetognatha1 site
- Choia1 site
- Choia carteri1 site
- Choia hindei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Naraoia taijiangensis, 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- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- Discovery and significance of Naraoia from the Qiandongian (lower Cambrian) Balang Formation, Eastern Guizhou, South China1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Naraoia taijiangensis 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 Naraoia taijiangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Naraoia taijiangensis 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 itNaraoia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peng et al. 2012