Choia carteri

No picture of Choia carteri 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 Choia carteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Choia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Choia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Choia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 1 occurrence509–508 Mya — about 3 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 1 occurrence503–502 Mya — about 1 occurrence502–501 Mya — about 1 occurrence501–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–496 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences506.5 Mya – 504.5 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

17 occurrences of Choia carteri 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

17 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

6 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WBurgess Shale — 51.43°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WMarjum — 39.22°N, 113.32°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 113.28°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WWheeler — 39.50°N, 112.99°WYu'anshan — 24.87°N, 102.83°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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

Choia carteri and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Choia carteri and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Choia carteri, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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 Choia carteri 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 Choia carteri, 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 itChoia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1920