Torellella explicata
No picture of Torellella explicata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torellella explicata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorellellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Torellellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Torellella explicata 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
6 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 Torellella explicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Torellella explicata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Torellella explicata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Chancelloria5 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis4 sites
- Microcornus4 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora3 sites
- Australohalkieria parva3 sites
- Chancelloria racemifundis3 sites
- Chancelloria symmetrica3 sites
- Conotheca australiensis3 sites
- Cupitheca3 sites
- Davidonia rostrata3 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni3 sites
- Hyolithellus filiformis3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Hyolithes conularioides3 sites
- Sinosachites3 sites
- Adyshevitheca utchbasica2 sites
- Aetholicopalla2 sites
- Allonia2 sites
- Amphigeisina renae2 sites
- Anabarella australis2 sites
- Archiasterella2 sites
- Archiasterella pentactina2 sites
- Archiasterella tetraspina2 sites
- Aroonia seposita2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Torellella explicata, 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- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia4
- Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]2
Each of the 6 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 Torellella explicata was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torellella explicata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Torellella explicata 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 itTorellella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981