Anabolotreta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrotretidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 500.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
43 occurrences of Anabolotreta 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
43 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
10 formations
- Zhumabai Formation20
- "Dolodrook River Limestone" Formation8
- Sarykumy Formation5
- Holm Dal Formation · Tavsens Iskappe Group2
- Aktas Formation2
- Tasman Formation1
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The named rock units Anabolotreta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anabolotreta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Anabolotreta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Linnarssonia13 sites
- Micromitra8 sites
- Treptotreta jucunda6 sites
- Linnarssonia ophirensis5 sites
- Stilpnotreta magna5 sites
- Tomagnostella exsculpta5 sites
- Acrothele4 sites
- Dactylotreta4 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons4 sites
- Lejopyge armata4 sites
- Linnarssonia captiosa4 sites
- Neotreta4 sites
- Obolidae4 sites
- Picnotreta4 sites
- Tomagnostella sulcifera4 sites
- Acidusus aculeatus3 sites
- Canalilatus major3 sites
- Hypagnostus brevifrons3 sites
- Lisogoragnostus mictus3 sites
- Picnotreta debilis3 sites
- Pseudophalacroma dubium3 sites
- Pseudophalacroma ovale3 sites
- Treptotreta3 sites
- Ammagnostus incertus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Anabolotreta, 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
6 references- Cambrian - early Ordovician brachiopods from Malyi Karatau, the western Balkhash region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia29
- Cambrian paterinid brachiopods from the Dolodrook River limestones, eastern Victoria, Australia8
- New and poorly known acrotretid brachiopods (Class Lingulata) from the Cedaria-Crepicephalus zone (late Middle Cambrian) of the Great Basin, USA2
- Molluscs of the Holm Dal Formation (late Middle Cambrian), central North Greenland2
- Middle Cambrian lingulate brachiopods from the Tarbagatay Range, Kazakhstan1
- New Cambrian inarticulate Brachiopoda from Australasia and the age of the Tasman Formation1
Each of the 43 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 Anabolotreta
- 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 Anabolotreta 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 itAcrotretidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rowell and Henderson 1978