Obolella crassa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ObolellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Obolellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Obolellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Obolellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
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.
11 occurrences of Obolella crassa 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
11 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
3 formations
- Bastion Formation9
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group1
- Aftenstjernesø Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group1
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The named rock units Obolella crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Obolella crassa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Obolella crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Echinodermata8 sites
- Botsfordia caelata7 sites
- Hyolithellus micans7 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata7 sites
- Setatella significans7 sites
- Cassitella baculata6 sites
- Chancelloriidae6 sites
- Conotheca australiensis6 sites
- Davidonia taconica6 sites
- Eoobolus priscus6 sites
- Indiana secunda6 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari6 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae5 sites
- Capitoconus inclinatus4 sites
- Discinella micans4 sites
- Figurina groenlandica4 sites
- Hyolithida4 sites
- Lapworthella shodakensis4 sites
- Microcornus4 sites
- Mongolitubulus henrikseni4 sites
- Ocruranus4 sites
- Trilobita4 sites
- Triplicatella sinuosa4 sites
- Wanneriidae4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Obolella crassa, 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
4 references- Early Cambrian brachiopods from north-east Greenland7
- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland2
- An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)1
- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland1
Each of the 11 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 Obolella crassa 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 Obolella crassa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obolella crassa 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 itObolella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)