Andrarina costata

Andrarina costata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500.5 Mya – 497 Mya540 Mya476 Mya

7 occurrences of Andrarina costata 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

7 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

3 formations

Alum Shale — 60.03°N, 10.84°EAlum Shale — 60.71°N, 11.19°EAlum Shale — 60.30°N, 12.24°EAlum Shale — 59.67°N, 9.77°ELåven — 59.76°N, 7.51°ELåven — 59.85°N, 7.18°EAlum Shale — 58.63°N, 13.42°E

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

Andrarina costata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Andrarina costata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Andrarina costata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Andrarina costata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Andrarina costata 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 itAndrarina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)