Diandongia pista
No picture of Diandongia pista 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 Diandongia pista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiandongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diandongia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Diandongia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diandongia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
32 occurrences of Diandongia pista 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
5 formations
- Yuanshan Formation10
- Wulongqing Formation10
- Yu'anshan Formation10
- Shipai Formation1
- Deo ka Tibba Formation · Lower Tal Group1
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The named rock units Diandongia pista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diandongia pista and its relatives
CambrianWhere Diandongia pista and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
223 taxa- Kunmingella douvillei15 sites
- Isoxys auritus14 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta13 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa13 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata13 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis12 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata12 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis12 sites
- Lingulellotreta malongensis11 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma10 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis10 sites
- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus9 sites
- Chuandianella ovata9 sites
- Houcaris saron9 sites
- Naraoia spinosa9 sites
- Vetulicola9 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata8 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus8 sites
- Redlichia8 sites
- Saetaspongia densa8 sites
- Selkirkia sinica8 sites
- Acrothele7 sites
- Burithes yunnanensis7 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Diandongia pista, 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
8 references- Luo et al., 200810
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China7
- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China5
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China3
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China3
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina2
- Soft-bodied fossils from the Shipai Formation, Lower Cambrian of the Three Gorge area, South China1
- Lower Cambrian body-and trace-fossil from the Tal Formation, Garhwal Synform, Uttar Pradesh, India1
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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Diandongia pista 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 Diandongia pista, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diandongia pista 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 itDiandongia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong 1974