Palaeospiculum greenpointensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeospiculumPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Palaeospiculum greenpointensis 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
3 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
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group3
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The named rock units Palaeospiculum greenpointensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeospiculum greenpointensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Palaeospiculum greenpointensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Echidnina irregularis3 sites
- Pararcheoentactinia reedae3 sites
- Curvechidnina fusa2 sites
- Curvechidnina longispinosa2 sites
- Curvechidnina tetractina2 sites
- Echidnina2 sites
- Palaeospiculum tetraradiatum2 sites
- Parechidnina jamesi2 sites
- Protoentactinia gracilispinosa2 sites
- Subechidnina florea2 sites
- Curvechidnina kozuri1 site
- Echidnina monactina1 site
- Echidnina stevensi1 site
- Furnishina1 site
- Parechidnina aspinosa1 site
- Prooneotodus gallatini1 site
- Radiolaria1 site
- Subechidnina delicata1 site
- Subechidnina gracilis1 site
- Subechidnina pressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeospiculum greenpointensis, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Palaeospiculum greenpointensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeospiculum greenpointensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPalaeospiculum through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Won and Iams 2002