Saratogia fria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaratogiaPBDB
- 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.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Saratogia fria 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
4 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 Saratogia fria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saratogia fria and its relatives
CambrianWhere Saratogia fria and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Billingsella perfecta2 sites
- Idahoia wyomingensis2 sites
- Pseudagnostus josephus2 sites
- Sinuella vaticina2 sites
- Angulotreta1 site
- Billingsella corrugata1 site
- Croixana1 site
- Croixana bipunctata1 site
- Drumaspis texana1 site
- Eocrinoidea1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Linguloidea1 site
- Maladia1 site
- Monocheilus1 site
- Multivasculatus1 site
- Pseudagnostus sentosus1 site
- Pseudodicellomus1 site
- Pseudodicellomus mosaicus1 site
- Ptychaspis granulosa1 site
- Rasettia capax1 site
- Saratogia carita1 site
- Stigmacephaloides verticalis1 site
- Westergaardodina1 site
- Westergaardodina bicuspidata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Saratogia fria, 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- Faunas and stratigraphy of the Snowy Range formation (Upper Cambrian) in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming2
- Cambrian trilobites from the Nounan Dolomite and lower St. Charles Formation (upper Marjuman to lower Sunwaptan; Miaolingian to Furongian Series), Smithfield Canyon, northern Utah1
- Late Cambrian and earliest Ordovician trilobites Wichita Mountains area, Oklahoma1
Each of the 4 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 Saratogia fria
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Saratogia fria 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 itSaratogia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman and Hu 1959