Figurina
No picture of Figurina 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 Figurina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelcionellidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 7.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 503 Mya.
14 occurrences of Figurina 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
14 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Figurina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Figurina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Figurina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Anabarella australis6 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata6 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari6 sites
- Anhuiconus microtuberus4 sites
- Aroonia seposita4 sites
- Capitoconus nana4 sites
- Conotheca australiensis4 sites
- Davidonia rostrata4 sites
- Echinodermata4 sites
- Hyolithellus micans4 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum4 sites
- Microcornus4 sites
- Obolella crassa4 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis4 sites
- Setatella significans4 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora3 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles3 sites
- Bemella communis3 sites
- Botsfordia caelata3 sites
- Capitoconus inclinatus3 sites
- Carinopelta carinata3 sites
- Chancelloriidae3 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis3 sites
- Eodiscellomus elkaniliformis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Figurina, 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
4 references- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia7
- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland3
- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia2
- Mollusc fauna of the Early Cambrian Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland2
Each of the 14 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 Figurina 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 Figurina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Figurina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHelcionellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parkhaev 2001