Beltanella
No picture of Beltanella 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 Beltanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScyphozoaPBDB
- Diet
- osmotrophPBDB
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Scyphozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Beltanella on record. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Beltanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aspidella3 sites
- Ediacaria3 sites
- Beltanelliformis2 sites
- Conomedusites2 sites
- Nimbia2 sites
- Primocandelabrum2 sites
- Tirasiana2 sites
- Charniodiscus1 site
- Kimberella1 site
- Medusinites1 site
- Palaeopascichnus1 site
- Sekwia1 site
- Vendotaenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Beltanella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India2
- Paleogeographic significance of Ediacaran cyclomedusoids within the Antelope Mountain Quartzite, Yreka subterrane, eastern Klamath Mountains, California1
- A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway1
- Edicaran fossils from the Innerelv Member (late Proterozoic) of the Tanafjorden area, northeastern Finmark1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Beltanella 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 Beltanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Beltanella was found in Sketchfab.
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 itScyphozoa through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sprigg 1947