Parkula
No picture of Parkula 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 Parkula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 529 Mya to 509.7 Mya.
37 occurrences of Parkula 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
37 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
13 formations
- Parara Formation10
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group5
- Emigrant Formation4
- Bastion Formation4
- Mernmerna Formation3
- Parara Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Parkula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parkula and its relatives
CambrianWhere Parkula and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Chancelloria22 sites
- Archiasterella13 sites
- Davidonia rostrata13 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari13 sites
- Anabarella australis12 sites
- Conotheca australiensis12 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum12 sites
- Microcornus petilus12 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata12 sites
- Microcornus10 sites
- Australohalkieria parva9 sites
- Cupitheca9 sites
- Dailyatia ajax9 sites
- Microcornus eximius9 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora8 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi8 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata8 sites
- Pelagiella8 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis8 sites
- Sinosachites8 sites
- Aetholicopalla7 sites
- Archiasterella pentactina7 sites
- Chancelloria racemifundis7 sites
- Echinodermata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Parkula, 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
11 references- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia15
- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland5
- Hyoliths and small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North−East Greenland4
- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia3
- An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)2
- Small shelly fossils from the Montezuman-Delamaran of the Great Basin in Nevada and California2
- Small shelly fossils from the basal Emigrant Formation (Cambrian, uppermost Dyeran Stage) of Split Mountain, Nevada2
- Early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils from northwest Mexico: Biostratigraphic implications for Laurentia1
- An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia1
- Early Cambrian molluscs from glacial erratics of King George Island, West Antarctica1
- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia1
Each of the 37 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 Parkula 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 Parkula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parkula 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 itHyolithida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bengtson et al. 1990