Salterella conulata
No picture of Salterella conulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Salterella conulata itself, so it was not used. 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 Salterella conulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SalterellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Salterella conulata 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
12 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
6 formations
- Shady Dolomite Formation4
- Vintage Dolomite Formation4
- Shady Formation1
- Bic Conglomerate Formation1
- Forteau Formation1
- Tomstown Dolomite Formation1
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The named rock units Salterella conulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Salterella conulata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Salterella conulata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acrotretida1 site
- Antagmus1 site
- Bonnaspis crassa1 site
- Coleoloides1 site
- Eoptychoparia1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Kutorgina cingulata1 site
- Nisusia1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Prozacanthoides virginicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Salterella conulata, 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
3 references- The Early Cambrian Fossil Salterella conulata Clark in Eastern North America9
- Salterella in the Lower Cambrian Shadi Dolomite of Southwestern Virginia2
- Lower and Middle Cambrian fossils from the Shady Fm., Austinville, VA1
Each of the 12 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 Salterella conulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Salterella conulata itself, so it was not used.
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 Salterella conulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Salterella conulata 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 itSalterella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1924