Canadaspis laevigata

No picture of Canadaspis laevigata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Canadaspis laevigata itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Canadaspis laevigata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CanadaspisPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Canadaspis
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Canadaspis
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Canadaspis
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Canadaspis

Time the record covers

At most 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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12 occurrences of Canadaspis laevigata 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

12 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

Yu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EQiongzhusi — 24.65°N, 102.97°EQiongzhusi — 24.68°N, 102.98°EQiongzhusi — 24.72°N, 102.95°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°E

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

Canadaspis laevigata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Canadaspis laevigata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Canadaspis laevigata, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 Canadaspis laevigata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Canadaspis laevigata itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Canadaspis laevigata, 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 itCanadaspis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hou and Bergström 1991)