Kingstonia pontotocensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KingstoniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Kingstoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Kingstonia pontotocensis 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
12 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Kingstonia pontotocensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kingstonia pontotocensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Kingstonia pontotocensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Tricrepicephalus coria9 sites
- Opisthotreta depressa8 sites
- Coosina ariston6 sites
- Porifera6 sites
- Coosella4 sites
- Llanoaspis4 sites
- Meteoraspis metra4 sites
- Coosia3 sites
- Diraphora3 sites
- Kormagnostus seclusus3 sites
- Pseudagnostus3 sites
- Arcuolimbus convexus2 sites
- Blountia2 sites
- Menomonia2 sites
- Crepicephalus auratus1 site
- Crepicephalus australis1 site
- Deiracephalus aster1 site
- Genevievella1 site
- Hardyoides tenerus1 site
- Kinsabia variegata1 site
- Llanoaspis modesta1 site
- Lonchocephalus1 site
- Pemphigaspis1 site
- Tricrepicephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Kingstonia pontotocensis, 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- The Faunas of the Riley Formation in Central Texas11
- Upper Cambrian faunas of the Cap Mountain Formation of Texas1
Each of the 12 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 Kingstonia pontotocensis 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 Kingstonia pontotocensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kingstonia pontotocensis 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 itKingstonia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman 1938