Grosmorneus
No picture of Grosmorneus 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 Grosmorneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchidninidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Grosmorneus 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
2 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
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group2
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The named rock units Grosmorneus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grosmorneus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Grosmorneus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Coelocerodontus1 site
- Echidnina1 site
- Echidnina conjuncta1 site
- Echidnina curvata1 site
- Eoconodontus1 site
- Furnishina1 site
- Furnishina furnishi1 site
- Palaeospiculum hexaradiatum1 site
- Palaeospiculum tetraradiatum1 site
- Pararcheoentactinia1 site
- Pararcheoentactinia reedae1 site
- Parechidnina aspinosa1 site
- Parechidnina jamesi1 site
- Phakelodus1 site
- Phakelodus tenuis1 site
- Proconodontus muelleri1 site
- Prooneotodus1 site
- Prooneotodus gallatini1 site
- Protoentactinia gracilispinosa1 site
- Ramuspiculum curvatum1 site
- Ramuspiculum multiramosum1 site
- Ramuspiculum trifurcatum1 site
- Teridontus nakamurai1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Grosmorneus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 2 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 Grosmorneus 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 Grosmorneus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grosmorneus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEchidninidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Won and Iams 2002