Takakkawia lineata
No picture of Takakkawia lineata 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 Takakkawia lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TakakkawiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Takakkawia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Takakkawia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Takakkawia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
23 occurrences of Takakkawia lineata 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
23 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group23
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The named rock units Takakkawia lineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Takakkawia lineata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Takakkawia lineata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Diraphora19 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis19 sites
- Hazelia19 sites
- Liangshanella19 sites
- Marrella splendens19 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens19 sites
- Selkirkia columbia19 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata19 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus18 sites
- Morania18 sites
- Scenella amii18 sites
- Yohoia18 sites
- Burgessia17 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta17 sites
- Laggania17 sites
- Micromitra17 sites
- Naraoia compacta17 sites
- Ottoia prolifica17 sites
- Trilobita17 sites
- Waptia fieldensis17 sites
- Chancelloria eros16 sites
- Lingulella16 sites
- Nisusia16 sites
- Pollingeria grandis16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Takakkawia lineata, 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
2 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale19
- Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia4
Each of the 23 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 Takakkawia lineata 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 Takakkawia lineata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Takakkawia lineata 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 itTakakkawia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1920