Saratogia
Searched as Saratogia carita. The Paleobiology Database treats Saratogia as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- IdahoiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Idahoiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Saratogia 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
1 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
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The named rock units Saratogia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saratogia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Saratogia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Pseudagnostus josephus21 sites
- Idahoia serapio18 sites
- Ptychaspis15 sites
- Ptychaspis granulosa15 sites
- Idahoia wisconsensis13 sites
- Ptychaspis miniscaensis12 sites
- Idahoia lirae11 sites
- Monocheilus anatinum11 sites
- Ellipsocephaloides curtus9 sites
- Wilbernia pero9 sites
- Monocheilus micros8 sites
- Prosaukia misa8 sites
- Pseudagnostus7 sites
- Drumaspis texana6 sites
- Ellipsocephaloides6 sites
- Billingsella perfecta5 sites
- Chariocephalus whitfieldi5 sites
- Sinuella vaticina5 sites
- Drabia4 sites
- Drumaspis idahoensis4 sites
- Housia vacuna4 sites
- Wilbernia4 sites
- Angulotreta vescula3 sites
- Croixana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Saratogia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Saratogia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Saratogia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIdahoiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1916