Mansuyia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MansuyiinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Kaolishaniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 497 Mya to 491 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 500.5 Mya to 488.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Mansuyia 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
3 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 Mansuyia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mansuyia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mansuyia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Anderssonella1 site
- Changia1 site
- Coosia1 site
- Cymatopegma semiplicatum1 site
- Damesellidae1 site
- Kimopegma huckitta1 site
- Lophosaukia1 site
- Micragnostus1 site
- Palaeadotes1 site
- Tellerina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mansuyia, 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- Cambrian Malyy Karatau Range, Kazakhstan1
- Yang et al., 19931
- Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Mansuyia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mansuyia 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 itMansuyiinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sun 1924