Eiffelia araniformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EiffeliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Heteractinida
Time the record covers
At least 9.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 497 Mya.
44 occurrences of Eiffelia araniformis 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
44 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
12 formations
- Shabakty Formation7
- Ajax Limestone Formation6
- Parara Limestone Formation6
- Parara Formation6
- Beshtash Formation5
- Kulpara Limestone Formation4
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The named rock units Eiffelia araniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eiffelia araniformis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Eiffelia araniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
237 taxa- Chancelloria36 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata21 sites
- Sinosachites21 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi20 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari20 sites
- Archiasterella19 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni19 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum15 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata15 sites
- Triplicatella disdoma15 sites
- Brachiopoda14 sites
- Cupitheca14 sites
- Microcornus petilus14 sites
- Anabarella australis13 sites
- Australohalkieria parva13 sites
- Hyolitha12 sites
- Microcornus12 sites
- <Hexact>11 sites
- Echinodermata11 sites
- Lenastella mucronata11 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora10 sites
- Cambroclavus absonus10 sites
- Hyolithellus filiformis10 sites
- Hyolithellus micans10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Eiffelia araniformis, 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- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia17
- Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]12
- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia7
- Skeletal fossils and microfacies analysis of the lowermost Cambrian in the southwestern margin of the North China Platform4
- First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East)1
- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland1
- Cambrian microfauna and palaeoecology of the Campo Pisano Formation at Gutturu Pala (Iglesiente, SW Sardinia, Italy)1
- Cambrian small shelly fossils from the Çal Tepe Formation, Taurus Mountains, Turkey1
Each of the 44 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 Eiffelia araniformis 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 Eiffelia araniformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eiffelia araniformis 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 itEiffelia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981)