Figurina groenlandica
No picture of Figurina groenlandica 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 groenlandica, 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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Figurina groenlandica 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
5 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 groenlandica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Figurina groenlandica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Figurina groenlandica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Echinodermata4 sites
- Obolella crassa4 sites
- Setatella significans4 sites
- Botsfordia caelata3 sites
- Capitoconus inclinatus3 sites
- Chancelloriidae3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata3 sites
- Anabarella australis2 sites
- Calodiscus lobatus2 sites
- Conotheca australiensis2 sites
- Davidonia taconica2 sites
- Emargimantus tunuensis2 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum2 sites
- Indiana secunda2 sites
- Latouchella ostenfeldense2 sites
- Microcornus2 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari2 sites
- Trilobita2 sites
- Albrunnicola1 site
- Apistoconcha1 site
- Archaeocyatha1 site
- Asperconella troyensis1 site
- Capitoconus artus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Figurina groenlandica, 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
2 references- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland3
- Mollusc fauna of the Early Cambrian Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland2
Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Figurina groenlandica 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 groenlandica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Figurina groenlandica 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. Skovsted 2004