Skiagia

No picture of Skiagia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skiagia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

17 occurrences of Skiagia 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

17 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

2 formations

Tokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.82°N, 17.87°ETokammane — 78.95°N, 18.33°EBuen — 81.60°N, 16.70°WBuen — 82.79°N, 42.23°W

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The named rock units Skiagia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Skiagia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Skiagia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Skiagia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 17 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 Skiagia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Skiagia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Skiagia 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 itAcritarcha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Downie 1982