Spencia

No picture of Spencia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spencia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 5.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCambrian510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510.2 Mya504 Mya

8 occurrences of Spencia 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

8 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

4 formations

San Isidro — 32.86°S, 69.00°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WPioche Shale — 40.00°N, 115.00°W

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

Spencia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Spencia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spencia, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Spencia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spencia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1939