Saukia

Saukia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DikelocephalidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Dikelocephalidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 495.2 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 27 of 31 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 4 of 31 occurrencesOrdovician496–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences494–494 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 1 occurrence493–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 4 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488.9 Mya – 486.4 Mya495.7 Mya476.6 Mya

31 occurrences of Saukia 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

31 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

12 formations

Tangcun — 30.67°N, 118.18°ETangcun — 30.63°N, 118.20°ESignal Mountain Limestone — 34.39°N, 97.12°WTinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WTinu — 17.03°N, 97.23°WTinu — 17.03°N, 96.57°WWilberns — 30.93°N, 99.41°WWilberns — 31.00°N, 99.27°WTrempealeau — 44.52°N, 89.57°WMistaya — 51.50°N, 116.20°WMistaya — 52.23°N, 117.23°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WNotch Peak — 39.22°N, 113.40°WTomahawk — 22.00°S, 134.83°EShenjiawan — 29.13°N, 110.95°EJiantang — 27.98°N, 109.55°EWhipple Cave — 39.23°N, 114.88°W

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The named rock units Saukia 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.

Saukia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Saukia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Saukia, 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

15 references

Each of the 31 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Saukia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDikelocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1914