Matherella
No picture of Matherella 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 Matherella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychochilidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 483.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Matherella 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
9 occurrences- Cambrian78%
- Ordovician22%
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
7 formations
- Notch Peak Formation2
- Hoyt Limestone Formation2
- Eminence Formation1
- Wan-wan-kou Formation1
- Whitehall Formation1
- Minaret Formation · Heritage Group1
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The named rock units Matherella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Matherella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Matherella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Plethopeltis4 sites
- Matthevia3 sites
- Euptychaspis2 sites
- Prosaukia2 sites
- Acheilops masonensis1 site
- Agraulos1 site
- Apoptopegma craddocki1 site
- Archinacella wanwanensis1 site
- Aremellia batteni1 site
- Bayfieldia1 site
- Billingsella1 site
- Bowmania1 site
- Bridgeites volutatus1 site
- Briscoia1 site
- Burenoceras1 site
- Calvinella1 site
- Cambrioconus expansus1 site
- Ceratopea compressum1 site
- Clisospira niuhsintaiensis1 site
- Cosminoconella runnegari1 site
- Dicellocephalus tribulus1 site
- Dikelocephalus1 site
- Ectenoceras curvatum1 site
- Ectenoceras ruedemanni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Matherella, 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
9 references- Cambrian Mollusca from the Minaret Formation, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica1
- New Monoplacophora (Mollusca) from Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician of Missouri1
- Cambrian stratigraphy and paleontology of the Great Basin and vicinity, western United States; 2nd international symposium on the Cambrian System1
- New species of the Cambrian and Ordovician chitons Matthevia and Chelodes from Wisconsin and Queensland: evidence for the early history of polyplacophoran mollusks1
- Systematics, environment, and biogeography of some Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician trilobites from eastern New York State1
- The Cambrian System of New York State1
- Faunal study of the Wanwanian (basal Ordovician) series with special notes on the Ribeiridae and the Ellesmereoceroids1
- Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. New York Potsdam Hoyt fauna1
- Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered1
Each of the 9 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 Matherella 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 Matherella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Matherella 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.
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What may have been alongside itOnychochilidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912