Tsunyidiscus orientalis
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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 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.
14 occurrences of Tsunyidiscus orientalis 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
14 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
7 formations
- Huangboling Formation3
- Mingxinsi Formation2
- Jiumenchong Formation2
- Bianmachong Formation2
- Shabakty Formation2
- Shuijingtuo Formation2
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The named rock units Tsunyidiscus orientalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tsunyidiscus orientalis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Tsunyidiscus orientalis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Estaingia2 sites
- Metaredlichia2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Chengkouia) pustulosa1 site
- Allonnia1 site
- Allonnia tetrahallis1 site
- Amphigeisina danica1 site
- Archiasterella pentactina1 site
- Botsfordia minuta1 site
- Calodiscus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Dabashanella sipa1 site
- Eohadrotreta zhenbaensis1 site
- Hagionella cultrata1 site
- Isitella plicata1 site
- Kunmingella douvillei1 site
- Liangshanella1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Lingulellotreta yuanshanensis1 site
- Linnarssonia constans1 site
- Microdictyon1 site
- Palaeobolus liantuoensis1 site
- Protolenella conica1 site
- Protolenella lata1 site
- Redlichia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tsunyidiscus orientalis, 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
6 references- Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications8
- Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]2
- Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobite Hupeidiscus orientalis from South China: ontogeny and implications for affinities of Mongolitubulus-like sclerites1
- Skeletal faunas from the Qiongzhusian of southern Shaanxi: biodiversity and lithofacies-biofacies links in the Lower Cambrian carbonate settings1
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China1
- Early Cambrian trilobites from the Hotang and Dachenling formations of Zhejiang1
Each of the 14 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.
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No picture of Tsunyidiscus orientalis 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 Tsunyidiscus orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tsunyidiscus orientalis 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 itTsunyidiscus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chang 1953)