Spinospitella coronata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinospitellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bradoriida
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.
5 occurrences of Spinospitella coronata 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
- Mernmerna Formation2
- Mernmerna Formation Formation2
- Aftenstjernesø Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group1
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The named rock units Spinospitella coronata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spinospitella coronata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Spinospitella coronata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Redlichia3 sites
- Acutobalteus sinuosus2 sites
- Alanisia2 sites
- Dailyatia odyssei2 sites
- Eoobolus2 sites
- Euzepaera2 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata2 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae2 sites
- Manawarra jonesi2 sites
- Mongolitubulus unispinosa2 sites
- Pararaia bunyerooensis2 sites
- Schizopholis yorkensis2 sites
- Tannuella elinorae2 sites
- Yorkella2 sites
- Yunnanocephalus2 sites
- Albrunnicola bengtsoni1 site
- Bemella communis1 site
- Beshtashella tortilis1 site
- Eodicellomus elkaniiformis1 site
- Eoredlichia1 site
- Galeacalvus coronarius1 site
- Halkieria1 site
- Mackinnonia corrugata1 site
- Microcornus eximius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spinospitella coronata, 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- Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone2
- Bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation, Arrowie Basin, South Australia, and their implications for identification of Cambrian ‘small shelly fossils’2
- An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)1
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 Spinospitella coronata 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 Spinospitella coronata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spinospitella coronata 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 itSpinospitella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Skovsted et al. 2006