Kutorgina

Kutorginates (Kutorginata) are an extinct class of early rhynchonelliform ("articulate") brachiopods. The class contains only a single order, Kutorginida (kutorginides). Kutorginides were among the earliest rhynchonelliforms, restricted to the lower-middle part of the Cambrian Period.

Kutorgina

C.D. Walcott · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
KutorginidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Kutorginida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Kutorginida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Kutorginida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Kutorginata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 30 of 30 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 4 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 5 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 Mya506.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

30 occurrences of Kutorgina 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

30 occurrences

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

17 formations

Kinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WPoleta — 37.41°N, 118.26°WPoleta — 37.82°N, 117.78°WPoleta — 37.26°N, 118.15°WAddy Quartzite — 48.36°N, 117.84°WOld Dominion Limestone — 48.55°N, 117.90°WSyys — 54.30°N, 90.75°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.45°EShady — 36.85°N, 80.91°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WMonkton Quartzite — 44.54°N, 73.20°WParalleldal — 82.63°N, 32.50°WDedebulak — 39.75°N, 72.00°ECoonigan — 31.17°S, 141.32°EYu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EHongjingshao — 24.83°N, 102.83°EChibit — 50.33°N, 87.67°EMt. Whyte — 50.90°N, 115.62°WWood Canyon — 36.13°N, 116.97°W

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The named rock units Kutorgina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Kutorgina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kutorgina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Kutorgina, 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

18 references

Each of the 30 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. 6 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 Kutorgina

Credit
C.D. Walcott
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kutorgina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKutorginidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Billings 1861)