Pachytheca
Searched as Pachytheca triangula n. gen. n. sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Pachytheca as the accepted name.
No picture of Pachytheca 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 Pachytheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChaetetinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chaetetida
- Life habit
- epifaunal, gregarious, clonalPBDB, for Chaetetida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chaetetida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pachytheca 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pachytheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pachytheca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Pachytheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
243 taxa- Gastropoda5 sites
- Bivalvia4 sites
- Butovicella migrans4 sites
- Cardiola4 sites
- Cephalopoda4 sites
- Maminka4 sites
- Prototaxites4 sites
- Slava4 sites
- Dualina3 sites
- Favosites goldfussi3 sites
- Isiola3 sites
- Manulicula3 sites
- Modiolopsis3 sites
- Praeostrea bohemica3 sites
- Procarinaria zephyrina3 sites
- Scutellum3 sites
- Spanila3 sites
- Stromatoporoidea3 sites
- Acanthophyllum2 sites
- Aechmella2 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Aptychopsis2 sites
- Callopora2 sites
- Columnotheca2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pachytheca, 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
1 reference- Opercula of hyoliths and operculum-like fossils from the Lower Cambrian Yuertus Formation, Xinjiang1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pachytheca 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 Pachytheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachytheca 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChaetetinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlüter 1885