Cupittheca mira
No picture of Cupittheca mira was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cupittheca mira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CupithecaPBDB
- 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 least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 520 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
32 occurrences of Cupittheca mira 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
32 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
8 formations
- Zhujiaqing Formation · Meishucunian Group18
- Dengying Formation4
- Yanjiahe Formation4
- Huangshandong Formation2
- Kuanchuanpu Formation1
- Maidiping Formation1
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The named rock units Cupittheca mira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cupittheca mira and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cupittheca mira and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Conotheca subcurvata14 sites
- Paragloborilus subglobosus14 sites
- Halkieria13 sites
- Watsonella crosbyi12 sites
- Halkieria sthenobasis8 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi8 sites
- Oelandiella maidipingensis7 sites
- Zhijinites longistriatus7 sites
- Aetholicopalla adnata6 sites
- Bemella jacutica6 sites
- Emarginoconus mirus6 sites
- Securiconus simplex6 sites
- Siphogonuchites triangularis6 sites
- Annelitellus yangtzensis5 sites
- Chancelloria5 sites
- Lopochites latazonalis5 sites
- Obtusoconus honorabilis5 sites
- Absidaticonus triangulatus4 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus4 sites
- Archaeooides granulatus4 sites
- Chancelloria symmetrica4 sites
- Hyolithellus4 sites
- Lathamella symmetrica4 sites
- Lomasulcachites macrus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cupittheca mira, 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
10 references- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication14
- Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China4
- Tannuolina and Micrina (Tannuolinidae) from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, south China, and their scleritome reconstruction3
- The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems3
- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China2
- Hyolithids and other small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Huangshandong Formation in the eastern part of the Yangtze Gorge2
- Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils from northwest Mexico: Biostratigraphic implications for Laurentia1
- Skeletal faunas from the Qiongzhusian of southern Shaanxi: biodiversity and lithofacies-biofacies links in the Lower Cambrian carbonate settings1
- Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance1
- The small shelly fossil assemblage in the limestone of the uppermost part of the Dengying Formation at Songlingpo, Yichang1
Each of the 32 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.
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No picture of Cupittheca mira was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cupittheca mira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cupittheca mira 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 itCupitheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (He 1977)