Cruziana problematica
No picture of Cruziana problematica was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cruziana problematica 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. Wikipedia and 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 least 118 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 346.7 Mya.
2 occurrences of Cruziana problematica 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- Ordovician50%
- Carboniferous50%
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
- Snowy Plains Formation · Mansfield Group1
- Beach Formation · Bell Island Group1
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The named rock units Cruziana problematica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cruziana problematica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cruziana problematica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Rusophycus2 sites
- Aulichnites1 site
- Bergaueria perata1 site
- Bergaueria prantli1 site
- Calycraterion samsonowiczi1 site
- Cruziana breadstoni1 site
- Cruziana semiplicata1 site
- Diplichnites1 site
- Diplocraterion parallelum1 site
- Fuersichnus commerfordi1 site
- Gyrolithes saxonicus1 site
- Helminthopsis hieroglyphica1 site
- Helminthopsis tenuis1 site
- Lockeia siliquaria1 site
- Margaritichnus mansfieldi1 site
- Monocraterion tentaculatum1 site
- Monomorphichnus intersectus1 site
- Monomorphichnus lineatus1 site
- Monomorphichnus mulitilineatus1 site
- Palaeophycus tubularis1 site
- Planolites annularius1 site
- Platicytes lioparadus1 site
- Psammichnites gigas1 site
- Rosselia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cruziana problematica, 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
2 references- An ichnofossil assemblage from the Lower Carboniferous Snowy Plains Formation, Mansfield Basin, Australia1
- Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada1
Each 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. 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
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No picture of Cruziana problematica was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cruziana problematica 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cruziana problematica 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 itCruziana through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schindewolf 1921