Yuknessia simplex
No picture of Yuknessia simplex 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 Yuknessia simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YuknessiaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.
13 occurrences of Yuknessia simplex 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
13 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
3 formations
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group11
- Lead Bell Shale Formation1
- Marjum Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Yuknessia simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Yuknessia simplex and its relatives
CambrianWhere Yuknessia simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Haplophrentis carinatus11 sites
- Selkirkia columbia11 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata11 sites
- Acrothyra10 sites
- Burgessia10 sites
- Dictyophycus gracilis10 sites
- Diraphora10 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis10 sites
- Hazelia10 sites
- Liangshanella10 sites
- Marrella splendens10 sites
- Micromitra10 sites
- Morania10 sites
- Naraoia compacta10 sites
- Ottoia prolifica10 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens10 sites
- Scenella amii10 sites
- Trilobita10 sites
- Waptia fieldensis10 sites
- Yohoia10 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta9 sites
- Chancelloria eros9 sites
- Hurdia9 sites
- Laggania9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Yuknessia simplex, 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- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale10
- A reexamination of Yuknessia from the Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah1
- A new homoiostelean and a new eocrinoid from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
Each of the 13 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 Yuknessia simplex 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 Yuknessia simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yuknessia simplex was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itYuknessia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1919