Conotheca circumflexa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConothecaPBDB
- 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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 530.7 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Conotheca circumflexa 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
6 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 Conotheca circumflexa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conotheca circumflexa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Conotheca circumflexa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Olivooides3 sites
- Zhijinites3 sites
- Allatheca degeeri2 sites
- Burithes elongatus2 sites
- Conotheca subcurvata2 sites
- Costatheca clinisepta2 sites
- Discinella2 sites
- Judomia dzevanovskii2 sites
- Mobergella2 sites
- Parazhijinites guizhouensis2 sites
- Pelagiella lorenzi2 sites
- Phyllochites involutus2 sites
- Sachites2 sites
- Sachites maidipingensis2 sites
- Siphogonuchites2 sites
- Siphogonuchites triangularis2 sites
- Tannuella2 sites
- Zeugites bifidus2 sites
- Zhijinites longistriatus2 sites
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Calcihexactina1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Delgadella1 site
- Emeithella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Conotheca circumflexa, 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
4 references- The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems2
- Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]2
- Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian/Botomian) shallow-marine carbonates of the Gorlitz synclinorium (Saxony/Germany)1
- Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou1
Each of the 6 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 Conotheca circumflexa 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 Conotheca circumflexa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Conotheca circumflexa 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 itConotheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rozanov et al. 1969