Blackwelderia paronai

Blackwelderia paronai

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlackwelderiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Damesellidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 500.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 22 of 22 occurrencesCambrian501–500 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences501 Mya496.5 Mya

22 occurrences of Blackwelderia paronai 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

22 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

1 formation

Kushan — 35.42°N, 114.05°EKushan — 39.75°N, 118.32°EKushan — 39.67°N, 111.92°EKushan — 39.48°N, 112.18°EKushan — 41.25°N, 124.35°EKushan — 41.35°N, 123.73°EKushan — 41.35°N, 123.75°EKushan — 41.23°N, 123.32°EKushan — 34.42°N, 117.43°EKushan — 36.90°N, 111.13°EKushan — 36.30°N, 118.41°E

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

Blackwelderia paronai and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Blackwelderia paronai and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Blackwelderia paronai, 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

6 references

Each of the 22 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 content1

Picture of Blackwelderia paronai

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Blackwelderia paronai 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 itBlackwelderia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Airaghi 1902)