Laggania
No picture of Laggania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Laggania itself, so it was not used. 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 Laggania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RadiodontaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Radiodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Radiodonta
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Radiodonta
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
25 occurrences of Laggania 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
25 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
1 formation
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group25
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The named rock units Laggania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Laggania and its relatives
CambrianWhere Laggania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Diraphora22 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis22 sites
- Hazelia22 sites
- Liangshanella22 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens22 sites
- Selkirkia columbia22 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata22 sites
- Marrella splendens21 sites
- Burgessia20 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus20 sites
- Ottoia prolifica20 sites
- Scenella amii20 sites
- Yohoia20 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta19 sites
- Morania19 sites
- Sidneyia19 sites
- Trilobita19 sites
- Waptia fieldensis19 sites
- Hurdia18 sites
- Lingulella18 sites
- Micromitra18 sites
- Naraoia compacta18 sites
- Nisusia17 sites
- Pollingeria grandis17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Laggania, 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
3 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale22
- New anomalocaridid appendages from the Burgess Shale, Canada2
- The Burgess Shale and associated Cambrian formations west of the Fossil Gully Fault Zone on Mount Stephen, British Columbia1
Each of the 25 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Laggania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Laggania itself, so it was not used.
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 Laggania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laggania 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 itRadiodonta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1911