Mariochrea
Mariochrea is an extinct anabaritid from the early Cambrian of Siberia. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Mariochrea sinuosa.
No picture of Mariochrea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mariochrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnabaritidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anabaritidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Anabaritidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Anabaritidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anabaritidae
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 525.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mariochrea 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
3 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 Mariochrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mariochrea and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mariochrea and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Chancelloria3 sites
- Helcionella antiqua3 sites
- Purella cristata3 sites
- Aldanella attleborensis2 sites
- Anabarella plana2 sites
- Anabarites hexasulcatus2 sites
- Anabarites kelleri2 sites
- Barskovia hemisymmetrica2 sites
- Bemella jacutica2 sites
- Cambrotubulus2 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus2 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis2 sites
- Halkieria2 sites
- Kotuyitheca curta2 sites
- Ladatheca2 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Salanyella costulata2 sites
- Selindeochrea tecta2 sites
- Selindeochrea ternaria2 sites
- Selindeochrea tripartita2 sites
- Siphogonuchites2 sites
- Tiksitheca licis2 sites
- Aculeochrea1 site
- Aegides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mariochrea, 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- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia2
- Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work1
Each of the 3 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 Mariochrea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mariochrea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mariochrea”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnabaritidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Val'kov 1982