Saukiella junia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaukiellaPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 483.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Saukiella junia 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian79%
- Ordovician21%
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
2 formations
- Wilberns Formation · Moore Hollow Group5
- Mistaya Formation1
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The named rock units Saukiella junia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saukiella junia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Saukiella junia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Euptychaspis typicalis3 sites
- Bayfieldia2 sites
- Bayfieldia binodosa2 sites
- Bayfieldia simata2 sites
- Stenopilus latus2 sites
- Acheilops1 site
- Bynumina vescula1 site
- Calvipelta1 site
- Conococheaguea1 site
- Euptychaspis jugalis1 site
- Eurekia1 site
- Kathrynia1 site
- Meniscocoryphe platycephala1 site
- Notchpeakia varga1 site
- Plethopeltis1 site
- Proricephalus1 site
- Prosaukia1 site
- Prosaukia hartii1 site
- Saukia1 site
- Saukia tumida1 site
- Stenopilus longispinus1 site
- Sunwaptia1 site
- Theodenisia1 site
- Triarthropsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saukiella junia, 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- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Ptychaspid Biomere Wilberns Formation, central Texas4
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta1
- Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician Faunas from the Wilberns Formation of Central Texas1
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 Saukiella junia 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 Saukiella junia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saukiella junia 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 itSaukiella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1914)