Shaanxilithes
No picture of Shaanxilithes was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Shaanxilithes 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 Shaanxilithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CloudinidaePBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Cloudinidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cloudinidae
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Shaanxilithes on record. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Dengying Formation4
- Zhoujieshan Formation2
- Zhengmuguan Formation1
- Nudaus Formation · Schwarzrand Group1
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The named rock units Shaanxilithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Helanoichnus helanensis2 sites
- Archaeonassa1 site
- Aspidella1 site
- Bergaueria1 site
- Cambricodium1 site
- Charnia gracilis1 site
- Charnia masoni1 site
- Cloudina hartmannae1 site
- Conichnus1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Ernietta plateauensis1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Helminthopsis1 site
- Obruchevella1 site
- Palaeopascichnus1 site
- Protolagena1 site
- Pseudofossil1 site
- Pteridinium simplex1 site
- Sinotubulites baimatuoensis1 site
- Subtifloria1 site
- Treptichnidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Shaanxilithes, 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
7 references- Problematic macrofossils from Ediacaran successions in the North China and Chaidam Blocks: implications for their evolutionary roots and biostratigraphic significance2
- The Quanjishan Charnia assemblage from the northern Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, and implications for palaeoecology and taphonomy of Ediacaran fronds1
- New Ediacaran tubular fossils from southern Shaanxi, China1
- Supplemental Data for Ediacaran Diversification Rates1
- Phosphatized Epiphyton from the terminal Neoproterozoic and its significance1
- Biostratinomy of the Late Ediacaran pyritized Gaojiashan Lagerstätte from southern Shaanxi, south China: importance of event deposits1
- Borings in Cloudina shells: complex predator-prey dynamics in the terminal Neoproterozoic1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Shaanxilithes was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Shaanxilithes 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 Shaanxilithes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Shaanxilithes 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 itCloudinidae through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Xing et al. 1984