Alueva

Not Alueva. This is Pilletina oeslingiana Basse & Franke, 2006, a relative.
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllipsocephalidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 42 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Alueva 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
7 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
2 formations
- Valdemiedes Formation · Mesones Group6
- Jbel Wawrmast Formation · Feijas Group1
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The named rock units Alueva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alueva and its relatives
CambrianWhere Alueva and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Andalusiana telesto1 site
- Kingaspis1 site
- Kingaspis (Kingaspis) campbelli1 site
- Morocconus notabilis1 site
- Protolenus (Hupeolenus) termierelloides1 site
- Protolenus densigranulatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alueva, 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
2 references- First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain)6
- Open quarry of the Brèche à Micmacca Member crossing the ‘telesto level’at Assemame, central Anti-Atlas1
Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Pilletina oeslingiana Basse & Franke, 2006
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Alueva 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEllipsocephalidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lotze 1958