Figurina capitata
No picture of Figurina capitata 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 capitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FigurinaPBDB
- 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 most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Figurina capitata 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Figurina capitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Figurina capitata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Figurina capitata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Anabarella australis3 sites
- Anhuiconus microtuberus3 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles3 sites
- Aroonia seposita3 sites
- Bemella communis3 sites
- Capitoconus nana3 sites
- Carinopelta carinata3 sites
- Davidonia rostrata3 sites
- Eodiscellomus elkaniliformis3 sites
- Eoobulus aff. viridis3 sites
- Figurina figurina3 sites
- Miniatonia tuckeri3 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis3 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata3 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari3 sites
- Aetholicopalla2 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora2 sites
- Apistoconcha siphonalis2 sites
- Archaeopetasus2 sites
- Archiasterella2 sites
- Archiasterella pentactina2 sites
- Australohalkieria parva2 sites
- Cambroclavus absonus2 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Figurina capitata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Figurina capitata 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 capitata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Figurina capitata 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 itFigurina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parkhaev 2001