Rotadiscidae
No picture of Rotadiscidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rotadiscidae itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rotadiscidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EldonioideaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rotadiscidae 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 Rotadiscidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rotadiscidae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Rotadiscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Anomalocaris1 site
- Anomalocaris briggsi1 site
- Australimicola spriggi1 site
- Balcoracania dailyi1 site
- Botsfordiidae1 site
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Choiidae1 site
- Diandongia1 site
- Emucaris fava1 site
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis1 site
- Eoobolidae1 site
- Eoredlichia intermediata1 site
- Estaingia bilobata1 site
- Facivermis yunnanicus1 site
- Fuxianhuia protensa1 site
- Hamptoniidae1 site
- Heliomedusa orienta1 site
- Holyoakia simpsoni1 site
- Isoxys1 site
- Isoxys auritus1 site
- Isoxys communis1 site
- Isoxys paradoxus1 site
- Jianfengia multisegmentalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rotadiscidae, 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- The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana1
- Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China1
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. 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 Rotadiscidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rotadiscidae itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rotadiscidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEldonioidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dzik 1991