Heliomedusa orienta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliomedusaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Heliomedusa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Heliomedusa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Heliomedusa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
34 occurrences of Heliomedusa orienta 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
34 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Heliomedusa orienta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heliomedusa orienta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Heliomedusa orienta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Kunmingella douvillei26 sites
- Isoxys auritus25 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis25 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata24 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa22 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata20 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis18 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis18 sites
- Naraoia spinosa18 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma16 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata15 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis15 sites
- Chuandianella ovata14 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus14 sites
- Selkirkia sinica14 sites
- Diandongia pista13 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis13 sites
- Arthropoda12 sites
- Saetaspongia densa12 sites
- Choiaella radiata11 sites
- Problematica11 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa10 sites
- Lingulellotreta malongensis10 sites
- Waptia ovata10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Heliomedusa orienta, 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
8 references- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China13
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China10
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China4
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China3
- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- Evidence of lophophore diversity in Early Cambrian Brachiopoda1
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina1
- Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China1
Each of the 34 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 Heliomedusa orienta 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 Heliomedusa orienta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliomedusa orienta 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 itHeliomedusa through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sun and Hou 1987