Primitia

Primitia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrimitiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 133 occurrencesOrdovician — about 121 of 133 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 133 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 133 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 133 occurrences489–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences472–467 Mya — about 4 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–458 Mya — about 25 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 39 occurrences454–449 Mya — about 26 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 15 occurrences445–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 1 occurrence423–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–410 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences410–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–401 Mya — about 1 occurrence401–396 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences396–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–378 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences374–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477.1 Mya365.2 Mya489 Mya356 Mya

133 occurrences of Primitia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

133 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

63 formations

Ust'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.56°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.14°N, 91.49°EUst'Stolbovaya — 62.30°N, 92.12°EChasmops Limestone — 58.77°N, 17.42°EChasmops Limestone — 63.00°N, 14.80°EDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WKirenskii-Kudrinskii — 57.00°N, 106.00°EKirenskii-Kudrinskii — 60.00°N, 114.00°EAmarkan — 68.00°N, 88.00°EAmarkan — 62.00°N, 90.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 12.00°EBreadstone Shales — 51.71°N, 2.42°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°EMiaopo — 30.00°N, 116.00°EDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 94.00°WQueenston — 44.60°N, 80.58°WQueenston — 44.65°N, 80.67°WQiziqiao — 27.78°N, 111.48°EDenley Limestone — 43.00°N, 75.00°WAylmer — 45.63°N, 74.59°WAylmer — 45.02°N, 74.73°WKagawong — 45.74°N, 81.82°WKagawong — 45.90°N, 82.25°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°WShihtien — 25.00°N, 99.06°EDolgeville Facies — 43.21°N, 75.46°WUtica Shale — 43.21°N, 75.46°WOnny Shale — 52.60°N, 2.55°WSularp Shale — 55.71°N, 13.32°EShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°W

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The named rock units Primitia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Primitia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Primitia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Primitia, 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

55 references

Each of the 133 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. 43 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 Primitia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Primitia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones and Holl 1923