Komaspidella laevis
No picture of Komaspidella laevis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Komaspidella laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KomaspidellaPBDB
- 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 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.
5 occurrences of Komaspidella laevis 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
5 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
- Petit Jardin Formation · Port Au Port Group2
- Bonneterre Formation2
- Conococheague Formation1
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The named rock units Komaspidella laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Komaspidella laevis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Komaspidella laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Crepicephalus iowensis2 sites
- Terranovella dorsalis2 sites
- Blountia virginica1 site
- Coosina amage1 site
- Glaphyraspis ornata1 site
- Lonchocephalus1 site
- Maryvillia arion1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Pemphigaspis bullata1 site
- Welleraspis jerseyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Komaspidella laevis, 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- Upper Cambrian (Marjuman-Steptoean) trilobites from the Port Au Port Group, western Newfoundland2
- Crepicephalus Faunule from the Bonneterre Dolomite (Upper Cambrian) of Missouri2
- Dresbachian and Franconian trilobites of the Conococheague and Frederick Limestones of the central Appalachians1
Each of the 5 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 Komaspidella laevis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Komaspidella laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Komaspidella laevis 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 itKomaspidella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rasetti 1961