Alanisia
No picture of Alanisia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alanisia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EstaingiidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Estaingiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Alanisia 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
5 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 Alanisia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alanisia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Alanisia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- <Hexact>2 sites
- Acutobalteus sinuosus2 sites
- Botsfordia2 sites
- Bradoriina <indet.>2 sites
- Dailyatia odyssei2 sites
- Eoobolus2 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata2 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae2 sites
- Manawarra jonesi2 sites
- Mongolitubulus unispinosa2 sites
- Redlichia2 sites
- Schizopholis yorkensis2 sites
- Spinospitella coronata2 sites
- <Pentact>1 site
- Alanisicystis andalusiae1 site
- Allonia tripodophora1 site
- Archaeopetasus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Elicicola1 site
- Eodicellomus elkaniiformis1 site
- Eops1 site
- Hipponicharion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Alanisia, 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- Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone2
- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia2
- A new eocrinoid from the Lower Cambrian of Spain1
Each of the 5 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 Alanisia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Alanisia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEstaingiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hupe 1953