Aspidella

No picture of Aspidella was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aspidella itself, so it was not used. 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 Aspidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProblematicaPBDB
Diet
osmotrophPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
inner shelf,marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 635 Mya to 521 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 720 Mya to 516 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 139 occurrencesCambrian724–717 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences717–710 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences710–703 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences703–696 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences696–689 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences689–682 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences682–675 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences675–668 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences668–660 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences660–653 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences653–646 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences646–639 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences639–632 Mya — about 4 occurrences632–625 Mya — about 10 occurrences625–618 Mya — about 10 occurrences618–611 Mya — about 10 occurrences611–604 Mya — about 10 occurrences604–597 Mya — about 10 occurrences597–590 Mya — about 10 occurrences590–583 Mya — about 10 occurrences583–576 Mya — about 10 occurrences576–568 Mya — about 10 occurrences568–561 Mya — about 10 occurrences561–554 Mya — about 10 occurrences554–547 Mya — about 10 occurrences547–540 Mya — about 10 occurrences540–533 Mya — about 2 occurrences526–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence635 Mya521 Mya724 Mya512 Mya

139 occurrences of Aspidella 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

139 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

38 formations

Rawnsley Quartzite — 30.00°S, 138.00°ERawnsley Quartzite — 31.67°S, 138.80°ERawnsley Quartzite — 30.97°S, 138.18°ERawnsley Quartzite — 30.85°S, 138.13°ERawnsley Quartzite — 31.32°S, 138.50°ERawnsley Quartzite — 30.79°S, 138.14°EFermeuse — 48.48°N, 53.10°WFermeuse — 48.53°N, 52.90°WFermeuse — 47.50°N, 53.50°WFermeuse — 47.65°N, 53.22°WMistaken Point — 48.53°N, 52.90°WMistaken Point — 46.62°N, 53.17°WMistaken Point — 47.60°N, 53.27°WMistaken Point — 47.63°N, 53.20°WVerkhovka — 64.38°N, 40.65°EVerkhovka — 64.70°N, 39.03°EVerkhovka — 64.43°N, 39.56°EVerkhovka — 65.55°N, 39.77°EVerkhovka — 64.38°N, 39.47°ESheepbed — 64.67°N, 132.00°WTrepassey — 48.53°N, 52.90°WTrepassey — 46.63°N, 53.12°WChernyi Kamen — 58.08°N, 58.85°ESiltstone Unit 1 — 65.98°N, 134.20°WEast Twin — 52.83°N, 118.47°WEast Twin — 53.07°N, 118.64°WEast Twin — 53.08°N, 118.67°WKhatyspyt — 71.13°N, 123.82°EBradgate — 52.67°N, 1.28°WBradgate — 52.70°N, 1.23°WBradgate — 52.77°N, 1.21°WZimnie Gory — 65.55°N, 39.77°ELamtsa — 64.44°N, 37.06°ELamtsa — 64.37°N, 38.34°EContra Fogo Sandstone — 4.00°S, 40.67°WUrusis — 22.00°S, 17.00°EUrusis — 27.48°S, 16.70°EStappogiedde — 70.90°N, 28.67°EStappogiedde — 70.58°N, 28.18°ECid — 35.63°N, 80.12°WCid — 35.25°N, 80.25°WZigan — 56.60°N, 56.68°EWood Canyon — 35.64°N, 116.27°WMezen' — 64.38°N, 40.65°EDuolbasgaissa — 70.58°N, 28.18°ERenews Head — 48.48°N, 53.10°WKauriyala — 30.45°N, 78.08°EClemente — 30.40°N, 111.95°W

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The named rock units Aspidella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Aspidella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Aspidella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Aspidella, 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

55 references

Each of the 139 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. 43 further references are not listed. 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
Free Standard
Commercial use
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No picture of Aspidella was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Aspidella itself, so it was not used.

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 Aspidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itProblematica through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1872