Delgadella

Delgadella is a diminutive agnostid that lived during the late Lower Cambrian and has been found in Russia, Mongolia, Spain, Italy (Sardinia), Portugal, Morocco and Canada (Newfoundland). It can be recognized by its strongly effaced headshield and tailshield, with narrow but distinct furrows and borders along its margins, and three thorax segments.

Delgadella

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HebediscidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
Vision
well-developedPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 512.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 26 of 26 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–518 Mya — about 1 occurrence518–518 Mya — about 1 occurrence518–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–514 Mya — about 1 occurrence514–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–513 Mya — about 1 occurrence513–512 Mya — about 1 occurrence521 Mya516 Mya526 Mya511.6 Mya

26 occurrences of Delgadella 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

26 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

10 formations

Erkeket — 71.48°N, 124.55°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°ETyuser — 71.58°N, 127.34°EOi-Muran Reef Massif — 61.07°N, 126.18°EIssafen — 30.27°N, 9.03°WPerekhod — 61.08°N, 126.59°EKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°ESinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°EHerrería — 38.60°N, 6.90°WKuonamka — 66.50°N, 116.00°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°E

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

Delgadella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Delgadella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

169 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Delgadella, 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

Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Delgadella

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Delgadella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHebediscidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908