Bemella
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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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 500.5 Mya.
97 occurrences of Bemella 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
97 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
32 formations
- Pestrotsvet Formation28
- Zhujiaqing Formation18
- Dengying Formation4
- Medvezhin Formation4
- Chapel Island Formation3
- Parara Formation3
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The named rock units Bemella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bemella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bemella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
471 taxa- Aldanella attleborensis33 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi22 sites
- Halkieria20 sites
- Watsonella crosbyi18 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus17 sites
- Hyolithellus tenuis17 sites
- Spinulitheca billingsi15 sites
- Turcutheca crasseocochlia15 sites
- Anabarella plana14 sites
- Hyolithellus vladimirovae13 sites
- Chancelloria12 sites
- Torellella lentiformis12 sites
- Camenella11 sites
- Exilitheca11 sites
- Hyolithellus11 sites
- Ladatheca11 sites
- Lapworthella11 sites
- Tiksitheca licis11 sites
- Turcutheca11 sites
- Aldanella crassa10 sites
- Turcutheca rugata10 sites
- Anabarites9 sites
- Anabarites tristichus9 sites
- Hyolithellus grandis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Bemella, 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
38 references- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication13
- Yarusnoye rasuchleneniye nizhnego kembriya Sibiri, Atlas Okamenelostey, Glava Klass Gastropoda. Lower Cambrian stage subdivision of the Siberia, Atlas of Fossils, Chapter Gastropoda11
- Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]10
- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia9
- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia5
- New investigation of Precambrian-Cambrian boundary sections in eastern Yunnan4
- The Placentian Series: Appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in southeastern Newfoundland3
- Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work3
- The Etcheminian fauna of Smith Sound, Newfoundland3
- Terreneuvian stratigraphy and faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia2
- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia2
- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian Sukharikha River section, northwestern Siberian Platform2
Each of the 97 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. 26 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 content0
No picture of Bemella 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 Bemella, 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 itHelcionellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rozanov et al. 1969