Tuzoia australis
No picture of Tuzoia australis 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 Tuzoia australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TuzoiaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Tuzoia
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Tuzoia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Tuzoia
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Tuzoia australis 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tuzoia australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tuzoia australis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tuzoia australis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Isoxys2 sites
- Isoxys communis2 sites
- Leptomitidae2 sites
- Alalcomenaeus1 site
- Allonnia1 site
- Ancalagon1 site
- Anomalocaris1 site
- Anomalocaris briggsi1 site
- Archotuba1 site
- Arthricocephalus1 site
- Arthricocephalus chauveaui1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Artiopoda1 site
- Askepasma1 site
- Australimicola spriggi1 site
- Balangia balangensis1 site
- Balcoracania dailyi1 site
- Banffozoa1 site
- Botsfordiidae1 site
- Breviredlichia1 site
- Cambrohydra ercaia1 site
- Cambrovitus1 site
- Canadaspididae1 site
- Caryosyntrips camurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tuzoia australis, 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- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- Early Cambrian arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Tuzoia australis 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 Tuzoia australis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tuzoia australis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itTuzoia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glaessner 1979