Purella gracilis
No picture of Purella gracilis 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 Purella gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PurellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Purella gracilis 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Purella gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Purella gracilis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Purella gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Aetholicopalla adnata1 site
- Alaconcha1 site
- Anabarites trisulcatus1 site
- Barskovia hemisymmetrica1 site
- Cambrotubulus1 site
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus1 site
- Cobboldiella transalpina1 site
- Conotheca subcurvata1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Igorella ungulata1 site
- Kerberellus marcouensis1 site
- Khasagtina1 site
- Kotuyitheca curta1 site
- Lomasulcachites macrus1 site
- Lophotheca1 site
- Merismoconcha1 site
- Oelandiella maidipingensis1 site
- Ovalitheca1 site
- Paracarinachites sinensis1 site
- Parailsanella inpocera1 site
- Pollicina1 site
- Prosinuites tripartitus1 site
- Pseudorthotheca acuticincta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Purella gracilis, 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- Chronostratigraphic and palaeogeographic significance of an early Cambrian microfauna from the Heraultia Limestone, northern Montagne Noire, France1
- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia1
Each of the 2 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 Purella gracilis 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 Purella gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Purella gracilis 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 itPurella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Voronin et al. 1982)