Coosia superba
No picture of Coosia superba 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 Coosia superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoosiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Crepicephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coosia superba 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
1 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.
Coosia superba and its relatives
CambrianWhere Coosia superba and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Aphelaspis1 site
- Armonia elongata1 site
- Asaphiscus1 site
- Asaphiscus (Blainia) gregarius1 site
- Asaphiscus glaber1 site
- Brooksella alternata1 site
- Coosella1 site
- Elrathia1 site
- Elrathiella1 site
- Spencella buttsi1 site
- Tricrepicephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coosia superba, 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 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Coosia superba 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 Coosia superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coosia superba was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCoosia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1911