Helcionella antiqua
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelcionellaPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 508.2 Mya.
20 occurrences of Helcionella antiqua 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
20 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
9 formations
- Yanjiahe Formation7
- Ust-Yudoma Formation3
- Pestrotsvet Formation2
- Medvezhya Formation2
- Manykay Formation2
- Sukharikha Formation1
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The named rock units Helcionella antiqua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helcionella antiqua and its relatives
CambrianWhere Helcionella antiqua and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Purella cristata9 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus8 sites
- Ladatheca7 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi7 sites
- Tiksitheca licis7 sites
- Aldanella attleborensis6 sites
- Anabarella plana6 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus6 sites
- Aldanella crassa5 sites
- Fomitchella4 sites
- Loculitheca4 sites
- Lopochites4 sites
- Securiconus simus4 sites
- Selindeochrea tripartita4 sites
- Anabarites kelleri3 sites
- Anabarites latus3 sites
- Anabarites signatus3 sites
- Anabarites tristichus3 sites
- Bemella3 sites
- Bemella jacutica3 sites
- Cambrotubulus3 sites
- Chancelloria3 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis3 sites
- Halkieria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Helcionella antiqua, 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
7 references- Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China6
- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia5
- Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work3
- Terreneuvian stratigraphy and faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia2
- Кембрии Сибири [Cambrian Siberia]2
- The shelly fauna and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian (provisional series 2, stage 4) Evjevik Member, Ringstrand Formation in the Mjøsa area, Norway1
- Fossil association from the Lower Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, Hubei, south China1
Each of the 20 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 Helcionella antiqua was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Helcionella antiqua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helcionella antiqua 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 itHelcionella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kiær 1916)