Bactrotheca emmonsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BactrothecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Bactrotheca emmonsi 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bactrotheca emmonsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bactrotheca emmonsi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bactrotheca emmonsi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Hyolithes americanus8 sites
- Chancelloria7 sites
- Hyolithellus micans7 sites
- Pelagiella primaeva7 sites
- Conotheca australiensis6 sites
- Davidonia taconica6 sites
- Discinella micans5 sites
- Elliptocephala asaphoides5 sites
- Insolitotheca communis5 sites
- Asperconella gloriae4 sites
- Botsfordia caelata4 sites
- Davidonia rostrata4 sites
- Archaeocyatha3 sites
- Coleoloides prindlei3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Mellopegma georginense3 sites
- Petasotheca minuta3 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari3 sites
- Polymeroidea indet.3 sites
- Hertzina2 sites
- Lapworthella schodakensis2 sites
- Linnarssonia taconica2 sites
- Plinthokonion psamminon2 sites
- Yochelcionella greenlandica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bactrotheca emmonsi, 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
2 references- Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia5
- Latest Early Cambrian small shelly fossils, trilobites and Hatch Hill dysaerobic interval on the Québec contental slope3
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bactrotheca emmonsi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bactrotheca emmonsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itBactrotheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ford 1873)