Capitoconus nana
No picture of Capitoconus nana was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Capitoconus nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CapitoconusPBDB
- 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 most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Capitoconus nana 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
11 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
5 formations
- Parara Formation5
- Parara Limestone Formation3
- Sellick Hill Formation1
- Yutaishan Formation1
- Emyaksin Formation1
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The named rock units Capitoconus nana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Capitoconus nana and its relatives
CambrianWhere Capitoconus nana and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Davidonia rostrata9 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora7 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis7 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari7 sites
- Stenotheca drepanoida7 sites
- Anabarella australis6 sites
- Anhuiconus microtuberus6 sites
- Chancelloria6 sites
- Hyolithes conularioides6 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata6 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles5 sites
- Archiasterella5 sites
- Aroonia seposita5 sites
- Australohalkieria parva5 sites
- Cupitheca5 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni5 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi5 sites
- Hyolithellus filiformis5 sites
- Microcornus petilus5 sites
- Sinosachites5 sites
- Aetholicopalla4 sites
- Apistoconcha siphonalis4 sites
- Archaeopetasus4 sites
- Chancelloria racemifundis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Capitoconus nana, 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
3 references- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia9
- An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia1
- Early Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from Huainan and Huoqiu Counties, Anhui Province1
Each of the 11 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 content0
No picture of Capitoconus nana was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Capitoconus nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Capitoconus nana was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itCapitoconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhou and Xiao 1984)