Skioldia aldna
No picture of Skioldia aldna was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Skioldia aldna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SkioldiaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Skioldia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Skioldia
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Skioldia
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Skioldia
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Skioldia aldna 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
3 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 Skioldia aldna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Skioldia aldna and its relatives
CambrianWhere Skioldia aldna and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Choiaella radiata2 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata2 sites
- Naraoia spinosa2 sites
- Acanthomeridion serratum1 site
- Amplectobelua1 site
- Cambrorhytium1 site
- Canadaspis laevigata1 site
- Chuandianella ovata1 site
- Fortiforceps foliosa1 site
- Fuxianhuia protensa1 site
- Hyalosinica archaica1 site
- Isoxys curvirostratus1 site
- Isoxys paradoxus1 site
- Kuamaia lata1 site
- Kuamaia muricata1 site
- Kuanyangia1 site
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa1 site
- Leptomitella confusa1 site
- Leptomitella conica1 site
- Leptomitus teretiusculus1 site
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma1 site
- Paraleptomitella globula1 site
- Parvulonoda dubia1 site
- Retifacies abnormalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Skioldia aldna, 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- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
- Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China1
Each of the 3 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 Skioldia aldna was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Skioldia aldna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Skioldia aldna was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSkioldia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hou and Bergström 1997