Lathamella caeca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LathamellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 530.7 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lathamella caeca 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lathamella caeca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lathamella caeca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lathamella caeca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Conotheca subcurvata2 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Paragloborilus subglobosus2 sites
- Aegitellus1 site
- Aetholicopalla adnata1 site
- Allatheca1 site
- Annelitellus yangtzensis1 site
- Archaeooides1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Carinopelta mirabilis1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Conotheca mammilata1 site
- Cupittheca mira1 site
- Emeithella rudiculaformis1 site
- Emeithella testudinaria1 site
- Fomitchella1 site
- Halkieria amorphe1 site
- Halkieria sacciformis1 site
- Halkieria sthenobasis1 site
- Hyolithellus tenuis1 site
- Igorella monstrosa1 site
- Lapworthella1 site
- Lathamella symmetrica1 site
- Lopochites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lathamella caeca, 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- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication1
- Early Cambrian cap-shaped lathamellids: their microstructures and systematics1
Each 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. 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 Lathamella caeca 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 Lathamella caeca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lathamella caeca 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 itLathamella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu 1979