Kaiyangites novilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZhijinitesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Environment
- outer shelf,eutrophic,marinePBDB, for Cambroclavida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Kaiyangites novilis 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- 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
6 formations
- Kuanchuanpu Formation2
- Taozichong Formation1
- Hetang Formation1
- Yangjiaping Formation1
- Niutitang Formation1
- Liuchapo Formation1
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The named rock units Kaiyangites novilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kaiyangites novilis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kaiyangites novilis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cnidaria2 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus1 site
- Archaeooides1 site
- Hertzina1 site
- Hunanospongia delicata1 site
- Lopochites1 site
- Protohertzina anabarica1 site
- Protohertzina siciformis1 site
- Protohertzina unguliformis1 site
- Zhijinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Kaiyangites novilis, 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
3 references- Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China)4
- Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou2
- Late Sinian to Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan1
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. 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 Kaiyangites novilis 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 Kaiyangites novilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kaiyangites novilis 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 itZhijinites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qian and Yin 1984