Acanthotretella

Acanthotretella is a genus of brachiopods known from the Burgess Shale and the Guanshan fauna.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachiopodaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrian510–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences510.2 Mya496.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Acanthotretella 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

6 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

2 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.08°W

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

Acanthotretella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Acanthotretella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Acanthotretella, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Acanthotretella 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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What may have been alongside itBrachiopoda through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holmer and Caron 2006