Cedarina dakotaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CedarinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cedariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 499.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Cedarina dakotaensis 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
25 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cedarina dakotaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cedarina dakotaensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cedarina dakotaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Dicellomus25 sites
- Modocia nevadensis14 sites
- Arapahoia6 sites
- Menomonia prooculis6 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus5 sites
- Welleraspis5 sites
- Hardyoides tenerus4 sites
- Kormagnostus4 sites
- Modocia oweni4 sites
- Kingstonia3 sites
- Bolaspidella2 sites
- Bynumia eumus2 sites
- Cedarina cordillerae1 site
- Cheilocephalus1 site
- Coosella1 site
- Tricrepicephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Cedarina dakotaensis, 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 referenceEach of the 25 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cedarina dakotaensis 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 Cedarina dakotaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cedarina dakotaensis 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 itCedarina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stitt 1998