Cardiodictyon catenulum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CardiodictyonPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cardiodictyon
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cardiodictyon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cardiodictyon
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Cardiodictyon
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cardiodictyon catenulum 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
10 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 Cardiodictyon catenulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cardiodictyon catenulum and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cardiodictyon catenulum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Heliomedusa orienta9 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei9 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa9 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis8 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata8 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis7 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata7 sites
- Isoxys auritus7 sites
- Selkirkia sinica7 sites
- Corynetis brevis6 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis6 sites
- Lingulellotreta malongensis6 sites
- Sicyophorus rara6 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata5 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis5 sites
- Diandongia pista5 sites
- Naraoia spinosa5 sites
- Saetaspongia densa5 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis5 sites
- Cambrorhytium4 sites
- Chuandianella ovata4 sites
- Cindarella eucalla4 sites
- Eldonia4 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Cardiodictyon catenulum, 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
5 references- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China4
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China3
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Cardiodictyon catenulum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cardiodictyon catenulum itself, so it was not used.
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 Cardiodictyon catenulum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cardiodictyon catenulum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCardiodictyon through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hou et al. 1991