Primicaris lavaformis
No picture of Primicaris lavaformis 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 Primicaris lavaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrimicarisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Primicaris
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Primicaris
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Primicaris
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Primicaris
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Primicaris lavaformis 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
9 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 Primicaris lavaformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Primicaris lavaformis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Primicaris lavaformis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Amplectobelua symbrachiata7 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis7 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis7 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata7 sites
- Hazelia7 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta7 sites
- Isoxys auritus7 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei7 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa7 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata7 sites
- Waptia ovata7 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis7 sites
- Archotuba conoidalis6 sites
- Burithes yunnanensis6 sites
- Diandongia pista6 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis6 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis6 sites
- Naraoia6 sites
- Naraoia spinosa6 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma6 sites
- Selkirkia sinica6 sites
- Houcaris saron5 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus5 sites
- Saetaspongia densa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Primicaris lavaformis, 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
2 references- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China7
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China2
Each of the 9 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 Primicaris lavaformis 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 Primicaris lavaformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Primicaris lavaformis 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 itPrimicaris through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 2003