Amplectobelua symbrachiata

No picture of Amplectobelua symbrachiata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Amplectobelua symbrachiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmplectobeluaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amplectobelua
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Amplectobelua
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amplectobelua

Time the record covers

At most 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences521.5 Mya514 Mya

19 occurrences of Amplectobelua symbrachiata 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

19 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

Yu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°E

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

Amplectobelua symbrachiata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Amplectobelua symbrachiata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Amplectobelua symbrachiata, 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

Each of the 19 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Amplectobelua symbrachiata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Amplectobelua symbrachiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itAmplectobelua through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hou et al. 1995