Conitheca sp.
No picture of Conitheca sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Conitheca sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Conitheca sp. 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
2 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 Conitheca sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conitheca sp. and its relatives
CambrianWhere Conitheca sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- ? Conitheca sp.1 site
- <Chancelloriidae>1 site
- <Hexactinellidae>1 site
- <Orthothecidade>1 site
- <Siphogonochitidae>1 site
- <Wanneriid>1 site
- Acanthomicmacca1 site
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) neltneri1 site
- Aktugaia1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Botsfordia caelata1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cassitella baculata1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Chancelooria sp.1 site
- Cobboldites1 site
- Coeleolus sp.1 site
- Coeloides prindlei1 site
- Conotheca australiensis1 site
- Contitheca1 site
- Davidonia taconica1 site
- Discinella micans1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eoobolus priscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Conitheca sp., 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
2 references- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland1
- Middle Cambrian fossils from Tizi n`Tichka, the High Atlas, Morocco. Part 1. Introduction and trilobites1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Conitheca sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Conitheca sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Conitheca sp. was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.