Lapworthella shodakensis
No picture of Lapworthella shodakensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lapworthella shodakensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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.
4 occurrences of Lapworthella shodakensis 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
4 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
2 formations
- Bastion Formation3
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group1
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The named rock units Lapworthella shodakensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lapworthella shodakensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lapworthella shodakensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Eoobolus priscus4 sites
- Obolella crassa4 sites
- Botsfordia caelata3 sites
- Cassitella baculata3 sites
- Davidonia taconica3 sites
- Discinella micans3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae3 sites
- Mongolitubulus henrikseni3 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata3 sites
- Aktugaia2 sites
- Chancelloriidae2 sites
- Conotheca australiensis2 sites
- Cupitheca holocyclata2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Indiana secunda2 sites
- Ocruranus2 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari2 sites
- Setatella significans2 sites
- Stenotheca2 sites
- Trilobita2 sites
- Triplicatella peltata2 sites
- Wanneriidae2 sites
- ? Conitheca sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lapworthella shodakensis, 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
- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland1
Each of the 4 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 Lapworthella shodakensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lapworthella shodakensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Lapworthella shodakensis 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 itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lochman 1956