Cruziana billingsi
No picture of Cruziana billingsi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cruziana billingsi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CruzianaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cruziana billingsi 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Ochre Cove Formation · Bell Island Group1
- Beach Formation · Bell Island Group1
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The named rock units Cruziana billingsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cruziana billingsi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cruziana billingsi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Bergaueria1 site
- Conostichus1 site
- Cruziana semiplicata1 site
- Dimorphichnus obliquus1 site
- Diplichnites1 site
- Diplocraterion parallelum1 site
- Gordia1 site
- Helminthopsis abelli1 site
- Palaeophycus heberti1 site
- Palaeophycus tubularis1 site
- Phycodes palmatus1 site
- Planolites terraenovae1 site
- Rusophycus dispar1 site
- Rusophycus latus1 site
- Rusophycus leifeirikssoni1 site
- Skolithos linearis1 site
- Skolithos verticalis1 site
- Teichichnus1 site
- Teichichnus rectus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cruziana billingsi, 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 2 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 content0
No picture of Cruziana billingsi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cruziana billingsi firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cruziana billingsi 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 itCruziana through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fillion and Pickerill 1990