Rasettia wichitaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RasettiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Illaenuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 493.5 Mya and 488.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Rasettia wichitaensis 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rasettia wichitaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rasettia wichitaensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Rasettia wichitaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Idiomesus levisensis5 sites
- Eurekia eos4 sites
- Stenopilus latus4 sites
- Calvinella tenuisculpta3 sites
- Bayfieldia simata2 sites
- Euptychaspis kirki2 sites
- Euptychaspis typicalis2 sites
- Meniscocoryphe platycephala2 sites
- Triarthropsis marginata2 sites
- Bynumina vescula1 site
- Calvinella1 site
- Idiomesus intermedius1 site
- Keithiella patula1 site
- Macronoda1 site
- Notchpeakia varga1 site
- Platydiamesus1 site
- Plethopeltis1 site
- Proricephalus1 site
- Saukia tumida1 site
- Stenopilus glaber1 site
- Theodenisia1 site
- Wilcoxaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rasettia wichitaensis, 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
2 references- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites, Timbered Hills and Lower Arbuckle Groups, Western Arbuckle Mountains, Murray County, Oklahom6
- Trilobites of the Upper Cambrian Sunwaptan Stage, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta3
Each of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rasettia wichitaensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Rasettia wichitaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rasettia wichitaensis 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 itRasettia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Resser 1942)