Kaskia chesterensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KaskiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
9 occurrences of Kaskia chesterensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
5 formations
- Beech Creek Formation2
- Golconda Formation2
- Fraileys Shale Formation2
- Fayetteville Formation1
- Yellowpine Formation · Monte Cristo Group1
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The named rock units Kaskia chesterensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kaskia chesterensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kaskia chesterensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Pterotocrinus4 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis3 sites
- Archimedes3 sites
- Cleiothyridina sublamellosa3 sites
- Pentremites3 sites
- Anthracospirifer leidyi2 sites
- Composita trinuclea2 sites
- Linoproductus2 sites
- Martinia contracta2 sites
- Productus2 sites
- Productus (Diaphragmus) fasciculatus2 sites
- Punctospirifer transversus2 sites
- Anematina1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Anthracospirifer1 site
- Beyrichiopsis1 site
- Cavellina1 site
- Chonetidae1 site
- Composita subquadrata1 site
- Composita sulcata1 site
- Corbulidae1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyclocyclopa sp. n. sp.1 site
- Cyclopentagonopa sp. n. sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Kaskia chesterensis, 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
5 references- Invertebrate Fauna of the Golconda Formation (Middle Chester) of Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois4
- The Paleontology of the Beech Creek (Chester) Limestone of Indiana2
- A Mississippian invertebrate assemblage from the Monte Cristo Limestone near Stateline, Nevada1
- Revision of some of Girty's invertebrate fossils from the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) of Arkansas and Oklahoma - Trilobites1
- Geology of the Cerro Gordo mining district, Inyo County, California1
Each of the 9 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 Kaskia chesterensis 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 Kaskia chesterensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kaskia chesterensis 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 itKaskia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weller and Weller 1936