Onuphionella durhami

Onuphionella durhami

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OnuphionellaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At most 19 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 520 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian539–539 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539.3 Mya519.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Onuphionella durhami 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

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

1 formation

Campito — 37.31°N, 118.13°WCampito — 37.42°N, 118.18°W

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

Onuphionella durhami and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Onuphionella durhami and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Onuphionella durhami, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Onuphionella durhami

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Onuphionella durhami 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 itOnuphionella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Signor and McMenamin 1988