Sunnaginia

Sunnaginia is a tommotiid known from the Comley Limestone and elsewhere, and appears to represent one of the closest relatives to the brachiopod crown group, in a more derived position than Eccentrotheca.

No picture of Sunnaginia 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 Sunnaginia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SunnaginiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tommotiida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tommotiida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tommotiida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tommotiida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 38 of 38 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 2 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 3 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 3 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 3 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 3 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 2 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 2 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521 Mya516 Mya539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

38 occurrences of Sunnaginia 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

38 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

12 formations

Weymouth — 42.03°N, 71.38°WWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WLower Comley — 52.54°N, 2.80°WLower Comley — 52.58°N, 2.70°WPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°ECuslett — 46.00°N, 60.00°WCuslett — 45.77°N, 60.29°WBrigus — 45.77°N, 60.29°WMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°EHartshill — 52.57°N, 1.55°WYudomian — 61.87°N, 135.48°EKulpara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°ESellick Hill — 35.37°S, 138.38°E

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The named rock units Sunnaginia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sunnaginia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sunnaginia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Sunnaginia, 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

12 references

Each of the 38 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 content0

No picture of Sunnaginia 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 Sunnaginia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sunnaginia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Rozanov et al. 1969