Absidaticonus ovatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AbsidaticonusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Absidaticonus ovatus 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
3 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
- Yanjiahe Formation1
- Zhujianqing Formation · Meishucunian Group1
- Zhujiaqing Formation1
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The named rock units Absidaticonus ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Absidaticonus ovatus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Absidaticonus ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Emarginoconus mirus2 sites
- Ocruranus finial2 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Ramenta superata2 sites
- Yunnanopleura accurata2 sites
- Aegitellus placus1 site
- Annelitellus yangtzensis1 site
- Archaeooides granulatus1 site
- Archaeopetasus1 site
- Brushenodus prionodes1 site
- Carinachites curvatornatus1 site
- Chancelloria symmetrica1 site
- Conotheca subcurvata1 site
- Cupittheca mira1 site
- Cyrtochites pinnoides1 site
- Dabashanites mirus1 site
- Drepanochites dilatatus1 site
- Exilitheca1 site
- Halkieria1 site
- Halkieria sacciformis1 site
- Halkieria sthenobasis1 site
- Halkieria wangi1 site
- Helcionella explanata1 site
- Igorella xundianensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Absidaticonus ovatus, 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- Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China1
- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China1
- Supraspecific taxa of the Bivalvia first named, described, and published in China (1927-2007)1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Absidaticonus ovatus 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 Absidaticonus ovatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Absidaticonus ovatus 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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What may have been alongside itAbsidaticonus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (He and Yang 1982)