Tichkaella insulcata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TichkaellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 3.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508.2 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tichkaella insulcata 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Tichkaella insulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tichkaella insulcata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tichkaella insulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Amecephalus cleora4 sites
- Hadrocephalites convexus4 sites
- Kochiella maxeyi4 sites
- Stenothecoides elongata4 sites
- Dolichometopsis3 sites
- Fieldaspis3 sites
- Kochiella eiffelensis3 sites
- Onchocephalus3 sites
- Plagiura cercops3 sites
- Protoconchioides rasettii3 sites
- Hadrocephalites2 sites
- Kochiella2 sites
- Oryctocephalites resseri2 sites
- Tichkaella carinata2 sites
- Fieldaspis bilobata1 site
- Fieldaspis celer1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Loxopeltis problematica1 site
- Nyella columbiana1 site
- Onchocephalites laevis1 site
- Onchocephalus maior1 site
- Parapoulsenia lata1 site
- Scenella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tichkaella insulcata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tichkaella insulcata 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 Tichkaella insulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tichkaella insulcata 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.
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What may have been alongside itTichkaella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rasetti 1957)