Petasotheca minuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetasothecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Petasotheca minuta 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
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The named rock units Petasotheca minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Petasotheca minuta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Petasotheca minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Asperconella gloriae3 sites
- Bactrotheca emmonsi3 sites
- Botsfordia caelata3 sites
- Chancelloria3 sites
- Conotheca australiensis3 sites
- Davidonia taconica3 sites
- Elliptocephala asaphoides3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Hyolithes americanus3 sites
- Insolitotheca communis3 sites
- Pelagiella primaeva3 sites
- Archaeocyatha2 sites
- Davidonia rostrata2 sites
- Discinella micans2 sites
- Hertzina2 sites
- Lapworthella schodakensis2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Plinthokonion psamminon2 sites
- Halkieria1 site
- Helcionella subrugosa1 site
- Mellopegma georginense1 site
- Phakelodus1 site
- Pojetaia runnegari1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Petasotheca minuta, 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
Media content0
No picture of Petasotheca minuta 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 Petasotheca minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Petasotheca minuta 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 itPetasotheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Landing and Bartowski 1996