Hungaia magnifica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HungaiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Hungaiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 493.5 Mya to 477.1 Mya.
7 occurrences of Hungaia magnifica 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian86%
- Ordovician14%
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
3 formations
- Shallow Bay Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group1
- Levis Conglomerate Formation1
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The named rock units Hungaia magnifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hungaia magnifica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hungaia magnifica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Bienvillia corax3 sites
- Keithia3 sites
- Keithiella cylindrica3 sites
- Loganopeltoides zenkeri3 sites
- Pseudagnostus canadensis3 sites
- Pseudagnostus gyps3 sites
- Ptychopleurites dunbari3 sites
- Apatokephaloides pauper2 sites
- Heterocaryon tuberculatum2 sites
- Lauzonella broeggeri2 sites
- Levisella2 sites
- Onchonotus nasutus2 sites
- Onchonotus richardsoni2 sites
- Raymondina respecta2 sites
- Acheilus monile1 site
- Agnostus orion1 site
- Bayfieldia tumifrons1 site
- Calculites microps1 site
- Dictyonema1 site
- Elkanaspis cristata1 site
- Idiomesus levisensis1 site
- Lauzonella planifrons1 site
- Lecanopyge billingsi1 site
- Leiocoryphe occipitalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hungaia magnifica, 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
4 references- Upper Cambrian trilobites from the Levis Conglomerate4
- Sunwaptan (Upper Cambrian) trilobites of the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland, Canada1
- Cambrian-Ordovician boundary sections in the Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland1
- Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series1
Each of the 7 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 Hungaia magnifica 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 Hungaia magnifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hungaia magnifica 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 itHungaia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1860)