Contitheca

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NovitatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 500.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCambrian517–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences509.7 Mya504.5 Mya516.5 Mya500 Mya

7 occurrences of Contitheca 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

7 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

5 formations

Jbel Wawrmast — 32.00°N, 6.00°WDedebulak — 40.40°N, 72.35°EBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WSpurs — 71.50°S, 165.27°EGislov — 55.52°N, 14.35°E

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

Contitheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Contitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Contitheca, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 Contitheca 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 Contitheca, 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 itNovitatidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sysoev 1972