Redlichiidae

Redlichiidae is a family of redlichiid trilobites which lived from the Botomian to the Middle Cambrian period. It contains the following genera, divided between five subfamilies:

Redlichiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RedlichioideaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 324 of 324 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 6 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 40 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 40 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 40 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 44 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 42 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 39 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 16 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 17 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 17 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 12 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516 Mya506.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

324 occurrences of Redlichiidae 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

324 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

63 formations

Yuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 25.50°N, 102.40°EYuanshan — 25.68°N, 102.17°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°EYuanshan — 24.00°N, 102.00°EYuanshan — 24.72°N, 102.55°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EWulongqing — 25.68°N, 102.17°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.45°EMantou — 41.25°N, 124.25°EMantou — 41.25°N, 124.47°EMantou — 41.20°N, 123.72°EMantou — 34.46°N, 117.38°EMantou — 34.24°N, 117.11°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EJiulaodong — 29.50°N, 103.40°EKaili — 26.73°N, 108.42°EBalang — 26.65°N, 107.95°EBalang — 27.17°N, 108.54°EBalang — 26.39°N, 107.69°EBalang — 26.24°N, 107.62°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°EPedroche — 38.00°N, 4.80°WAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EMinghsingssu — 27.55°N, 106.23°EMinghsingssu — 26.92°N, 107.32°EMinghsingssu — 27.77°N, 107.48°EManto — 34.75°N, 110.62°EManto — 34.63°N, 112.97°EManto — 34.80°N, 111.90°EYuxiansi — 29.33°N, 103.47°EJindingshan — 27.55°N, 106.23°EJindingshan — 27.73°N, 106.80°EWangjiadian — 33.13°N, 111.47°EWangjiadian — 33.23°N, 110.88°EJianchang — 41.25°N, 124.25°EJianchang — 41.25°N, 124.47°EJianchang — 41.20°N, 123.72°EHuanglianba — 27.13°N, 106.82°EXidashan — 41.50°N, 90.00°ENiutitang — 27.67°N, 106.68°EErkhelnur — 51.00°N, 100.00°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EQiongzhusi — 25.03°N, 102.72°EQiongzhusi — 24.65°N, 102.97°EQiongzhusi — 32.83°N, 106.25°EQiongzhusi — 24.70°N, 102.97°EQingxudong — 28.05°N, 109.07°EQingxudong — 27.47°N, 107.40°E

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The named rock units Redlichiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Redlichiidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Redlichiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

827 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 138 sites for Redlichiidae, 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

74 references

Each of the 324 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. 62 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 Redlichiidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Redlichiidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poulsen 1927