Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TsunyidiscusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Agnostida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agnostida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Agnostida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Tsunyidiscidae
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.
15 occurrences of Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis 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
15 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 Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Amplectobelua2 sites
- Choiaella radiata2 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata2 sites
- Naraoia spinosa2 sites
- Tsunyiella2 sites
- Yuknessia2 sites
- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus1 site
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis1 site
- Cambrorhytium1 site
- Canadaspis laevigata1 site
- Choia1 site
- Chuandianella ovata1 site
- Cricocosmia1 site
- Diandongia pista1 site
- Fuxianospira1 site
- Hazelia palmata1 site
- Heliomedusa orienta1 site
- Houcaris saron1 site
- Hyalosinica archaica1 site
- Isoxys auritus1 site
- Isoxys curvirostratus1 site
- Isoxys paradoxus1 site
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa1 site
- Mafangscolex sinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis, 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
4 references- Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications9
- Discovery of trilobite genus Zhenbaspis from the Lower Cambrian Niutitang biota at Heishapo, Songlin, Zunyi, Guizhou, China3
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China2
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China1
Each of the 15 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 Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis 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 Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tsunyidiscus niutitangensis 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 itTsunyidiscus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chang 1964)