Kawina

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheiruridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cheiruridae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
61 occurrences of Kawina 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
61 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
20 formations
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group11
- Sunblood Formation6
- Table Cove Formation5
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group4
- Valhallfonna Formation3
- Yijianfang Formation3
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The named rock units Kawina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kawina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Kawina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
448 taxa- Illaenus11 sites
- Nileus10 sites
- Camerella7 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis6 sites
- Remopleurides6 sites
- Stenopareia globosus6 sites
- Calyptaulax annulata5 sites
- Eoleperditia5 sites
- Isotelus harrisi5 sites
- Leperditella5 sites
- Maclurites5 sites
- Orthambonites5 sites
- Orthidiella5 sites
- Pseudomera barrandei5 sites
- Xystocrania perforator5 sites
- Amphilichas minganensis4 sites
- Bathyurus mackenziensis4 sites
- Blastoidocrinus4 sites
- Ectenonotus whittingtoni4 sites
- Eurychilina4 sites
- Idiostrophia4 sites
- Ischyrotoma4 sites
- Ostracoda4 sites
- Pliomerops canadensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Kawina, 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
25 references- Middle Ordovician trilobites from Lower Head, western Newfoundland10
- Fossils from the Ordovician bioherm at Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada6
- Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) cheirurid trilobites from the Table Cove Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada5
- Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) trilobites from the Sunblood Formation, District of Mackenzie, Canada5
- The Ordovician trilobites of Spitsbergen. III. Remaining trilobites of the Valhallfonna Formation3
- Ordovician Brachiopods, Trilobites, and Stratigraphy in Eastern and Central Nevada3
- Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York3
- Zonation and correlation of Canadian and Early Mohawkian series3
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna3
- Ordovician (Darriwilian-early Katian) trilobite faunas of northwestern Tarim, Xinjiang, China2
- Ordovician trilobites from the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Ibexian-Late Whiterockian), Mingan Islands, Quebec2
- Simpson Group (Middle Ordovician) trilobites of Oklahoma2
Each of the 61 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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
Media content1

Picture of Kawina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCheiruridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barton 1916