Anhuiconus
No picture of Anhuiconus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Anhuiconus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelcionellidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 530.7 Mya to 503 Mya.
15 occurrences of Anhuiconus 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
15 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
6 formations
- Parara Formation5
- Parara Limestone Formation4
- Xinji Formation2
- Gowers Formation1
- Mernmerna Formation1
- Yutaishan Formation1
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The named rock units Anhuiconus 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.
Anhuiconus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Anhuiconus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Davidonia rostrata10 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis9 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari9 sites
- Anabarella australis7 sites
- Stenotheca drepanoida7 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora6 sites
- Archiasterella6 sites
- Capitoconus nana6 sites
- Cupitheca6 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata6 sites
- Archiasterella pentactina5 sites
- Aroonia seposita5 sites
- Cambroclavus absonus5 sites
- Chancelloria5 sites
- Dailyatia ajax5 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi5 sites
- Hyolithellus filiformis5 sites
- Hyolithes conularioides5 sites
- Aetholicopalla4 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles4 sites
- Archaeopetasus4 sites
- Chancelloria symmetrica4 sites
- Conotheca australiensis4 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Anhuiconus, 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- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia10
- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia1
- Study of Monoplacophora and Gastropoda from the Lower Cambrian Xinji Formation in Ye Xian, Henan1
- Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Chaohu area, Anhui1
- First discovery of Yochelcionella from the Lower Cambrian of China and its significance1
- Early Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from Huainan and Huoqiu Counties, Anhui Province1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Anhuiconus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Anhuiconus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anhuiconus 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 itHelcionellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhou and Xiao 1984