Koldiniella
Koldiniella is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.
No picture of Koldiniella 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 Koldiniella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlethopeltidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Koldiniella 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
4 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Koldiniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Koldiniella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Koldiniella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Anomocarella1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Buttsia1 site
- Buttsia parvula1 site
- Catuniella lauta1 site
- Chelidonocephalus1 site
- Dorypyge1 site
- Hadragnostus1 site
- Iranoleesia1 site
- Koldinia minor1 site
- Maiaspis mirabilis1 site
- Munija1 site
- Nganasanella tavgaensis1 site
- Onchonotellus1 site
- Peronopsis1 site
- Ritella1 site
- Schoriecare1 site
- Theodenisia1 site
- Tsinania1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Koldiniella, 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- Evolution of trilobite biofacies in Cambrian basins of the Siberian Platform2
- Chelidonocephalus trilobite fauna from the Cambrian of Iran1
- Biostratigrafiya i trilobity verkhnego Kembriya i nizhnego Ordovika severo-zapada Sibirskoy Platformy [Biostratigraphy and trilobites of the Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of the northwestern Siberian platform]1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Koldiniella 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 Koldiniella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Koldiniella 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Koldiniella”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlethopeltidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sivov 1955