Apistoconcha

No picture of Apistoconcha was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Apistoconcha firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TianzhushanellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 3.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 47 of 47 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 5 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 5 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 5 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 5 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 5 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 5 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 5 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 5 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 2 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 Mya512.1 Mya521.5 Mya507.7 Mya

47 occurrences of Apistoconcha 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

47 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

8 formations

Parara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WKulpara — 34.92°S, 137.80°EXinji — 34.90°N, 106.85°ECal Tepe — 37.42°N, 31.85°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EOraparinna Shale — 31.41°S, 138.53°E

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

Apistoconcha and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Apistoconcha and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Apistoconcha, 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

7 references

Each of the 47 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 Apistoconcha was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Apistoconcha firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTianzhushanellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bengtson et al. 1990