Tabelliscolex hexagonus
No picture of Tabelliscolex hexagonus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Tabelliscolex hexagonus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TabelliscolexPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Priapulida
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 Tabelliscolex hexagonus 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tabelliscolex hexagonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tabelliscolex hexagonus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tabelliscolex hexagonus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus2 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis2 sites
- Chuandianella ovata2 sites
- Combinivalvula chengjiangensis2 sites
- Cricocosmia2 sites
- Diandongia pista2 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata2 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa2 sites
- Glossolites2 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta2 sites
- Isoxys auritus2 sites
- Kuanyangia pustulosa2 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei2 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa2 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis2 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata2 sites
- Pectocaris2 sites
- Stellostomites eumorphus2 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis2 sites
- Acanthomeridion serratum1 site
- Acosmia maotiania1 site
- Allantospongia mica1 site
- Amiskwia1 site
- Amplectobelua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tabelliscolex hexagonus, 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
2 references- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China2
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tabelliscolex hexagonus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Tabelliscolex hexagonus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tabelliscolex hexagonus 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 itTabelliscolex through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Han et al. 2003