Albertella lata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlbertellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Albertella lata 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Albertella lata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Albertella lata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Albertella lata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Pagetia clytia2 sites
- Pagetia resseri2 sites
- Poliella germana2 sites
- Poliella leipalox2 sites
- Ptarmiganoides2 sites
- Ptarmiganoides araneicauda2 sites
- Albertella eiloitys1 site
- Albertella judithi1 site
- Alokistocare alta1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Kootenia crassinucha1 site
- Nyella clinolimbata1 site
- Olenoides steptoensis1 site
- Oryctocephalites typicalis1 site
- Oryctocephalus maladensis1 site
- Oryctocephalus primus1 site
- Palmerara granosa1 site
- Poliella denticulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Albertella lata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Albertella lata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Albertella lata 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 itAlbertella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritz 1968