Misszhouia longicaudata

No picture of Misszhouia longicaudata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Misszhouia longicaudata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MisszhouiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Nektaspidida

Time the record covers

At most 6.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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48 occurrences of Misszhouia longicaudata 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

48 occurrences

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

4 formations

Yuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 25.68°N, 102.17°EYuanshan — 24.00°N, 102.00°EQiongzhusi — 24.65°N, 102.97°EQiongzhusi — 24.68°N, 102.98°EQiongzhusi — 24.63°N, 102.95°EQiongzhusi — 24.72°N, 102.95°EYu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°ENiutitang — 27.60°N, 106.71°E

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The named rock units Misszhouia longicaudata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Misszhouia longicaudata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Misszhouia longicaudata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Misszhouia longicaudata, 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

7 references

Each of the 48 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 Misszhouia longicaudata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Misszhouia longicaudata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Misszhouia longicaudata 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 itMisszhouia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhang and Hou 1985)