Catazyga

Catazyga

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CatazyginaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Anazygidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Anazygidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Anazygidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 90 of 94 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 94 occurrencesSilurian469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 6 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 10 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 19 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 13 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 13 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 9 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 7 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya432.9 Mya468.8 Mya425.9 Mya

94 occurrences of Catazyga on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

94 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

32 formations

White Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WWhite Head — 46.88°N, 60.35°WWaynesville — 44.59°N, 80.56°WWaynesville — 43.59°N, 79.72°WWaynesville — 45.90°N, 82.26°WWaynesville — 45.79°N, 72.86°WWaynesville — 45.56°N, 73.18°WWaynesville — 45.91°N, 81.89°WWaynesville — 45.36°N, 75.35°WWaynesville — 45.50°N, 75.00°WWaynesville — 46.34°N, 72.54°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 38.73°N, 83.61°WWaynesville — 38.66°N, 83.65°WWaynesville — 39.28°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.40°N, 84.56°WWaynesville — 39.40°N, 83.98°WDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°ELorraine — 45.38°N, 75.60°WLorraine — 45.79°N, 72.86°WLorraine — 43.70°N, 79.51°WLorraine — 45.45°N, 73.04°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WNicolet River — 45.37°N, 73.44°WNicolet River — 46.00°N, 72.00°WNicolet River — 45.66°N, 72.93°WNicolet River — 45.45°N, 73.28°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.75°N, 63.14°WVaureal — 49.79°N, 63.24°WVaureal — 49.60°N, 62.69°WChangwu — 28.00°N, 118.00°EChangwu — 30.00°N, 120.00°EXiayan — 37.00°N, 95.00°EXiayan — 40.00°N, 95.00°EVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.02°N, 77.15°WLindsay — 45.50°N, 81.00°WLindsay — 44.58°N, 78.98°WCraighead — 55.25°N, 4.85°WVauréal — 49.67°N, 63.00°WFosses — 50.34°N, 5.08°EFosses — 50.40°N, 4.64°ETekhten — 51.23°N, 84.79°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°EFossil Hill Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EQuondong Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EHuangnigang — 30.00°N, 120.00°EDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WWeir — 48.27°N, 65.08°WKuanyinchiao — 28.00°N, 108.00°EGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WKorotkinskaya — 75.25°N, 99.90°E

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The named rock units Catazyga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Catazyga and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Catazyga and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

821 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Catazyga, 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

36 references

Each of the 94 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Catazyga

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Catazyga 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 itCatazyginae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1893