Paralbertella bosworthi
No picture of Paralbertella bosworthi 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 Paralbertella bosworthi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalbertellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paralbertella bosworthi 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
5 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
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The named rock units Paralbertella bosworthi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paralbertella bosworthi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Paralbertella bosworthi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Albertella3 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Albertella nitida1 site
- Bathyuriscus1 site
- Glossopleura mohavensis1 site
- Kochina americana1 site
- Kochina macrops1 site
- Mexicella stator1 site
- Micromitra (Paterina) wapta1 site
- Obolus parvus1 site
- Ptarmigania1 site
- Ptarmiganoides1 site
- Vanuxemella1 site
- Wimanella simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paralbertella bosworthi, 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
4 references- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin1
- Sonoraspis and Albertella in the Inyo Mountains, California1
- Cambrian Geology and Paleontology. No. 2. Cambrian Trilobites1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Paralbertella bosworthi 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 Paralbertella bosworthi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralbertella bosworthi 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 itParalbertella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1908)