Circotheca transulcata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CircothecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 530.7 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Circotheca transulcata 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Circotheca transulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Circotheca transulcata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Circotheca transulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Anabarites korobovi3 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus3 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus3 sites
- Conotheca subcurvata3 sites
- Lophotheca costellata3 sites
- Lophotheca2 sites
- Oelandiella maidipingensis2 sites
- Tiksitheca huangshandongensis2 sites
- Turcutheca crasseocochlia2 sites
- Aldanella attleborensis1 site
- Anabarites tristichus1 site
- Bemella rotundata1 site
- Ceratoconus bucerus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Circotheca punctata1 site
- Cupittheca mira1 site
- Huangshandongella bella1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Hyolithellus decorus1 site
- Hyolithellus tenuis1 site
- Igorella lata1 site
- Igorella orientalis1 site
- Lapworthella1 site
- Latouchella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Circotheca transulcata, 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- Discovery of Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils from Jijiapo, Yichang, west Hubei and its significance1
- The small shelly fossil assemblage in the limestone of the uppermost part of the Dengying Formation at Songlingpo, Yichang1
- Hyolithids and other small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Huangshandong Formation in the eastern part of the Yangtze Gorge1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Circotheca transulcata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Circotheca transulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Circotheca transulcata 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 itCircotheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qian 1978