Rushtonia
No picture of Rushtonia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rushtonia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorellellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Time the record covers
At least 9.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 516.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Rushtonia 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Rushtonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rushtonia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Rushtonia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Acrothyra2 sites
- Amphigeisina danica2 sites
- Cowiella reticulata2 sites
- Cowiella verrucata2 sites
- Eccentrotheca kanesia2 sites
- Hertzina2 sites
- Lapworthella2 sites
- Mongolitubulus spinosus2 sites
- Obolus2 sites
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) comleyensis1 site
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) ellipsocephaloides1 site
- Acrothyra sera1 site
- Amphigeisina1 site
- Anabarites1 site
- Andrarina1 site
- Calcihexactina1 site
- Coleoloides typicalis1 site
- Conotheca1 site
- Cowiella undulata1 site
- Curtica minuta1 site
- Dorypyge lakei1 site
- Eodiscus bellimarginatus1 site
- Eodiscus simplex1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rushtonia, 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
3 references- Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China2
- The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England2
- Late Sinian to Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan1
Each of the 5 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 Rushtonia was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rushtonia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Rushtonia 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 itTorellellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobbold and Pocock 1934