Vendotaenia

No picture of Vendotaenia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vendotaenia 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. 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
VendotaenialesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Algae

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 8 of 22 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 22 occurrencesOrdovician638–633 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences633–627 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences627–621 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences621–616 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences616–610 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences610–604 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences604–599 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences599–593 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences593–587 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences587–582 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences582–576 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences576–570 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences570–565 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences565–559 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences559–553 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences553–547 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences547–542 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences542–536 Mya — about 1 occurrence536–530 Mya — about 1 occurrence530–525 Mya — about 1 occurrence525–519 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences508–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–496 Mya — about 2 occurrences479–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–468 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences538.8 Mya477.1 Mya638 Mya468 Mya

22 occurrences of Vendotaenia 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

22 occurrences

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

15 formations

Dengying — 30.81°N, 111.15°EDengying — 24.47°N, 102.77°EDengying — 32.35°N, 106.82°EDengying — 30.79°N, 111.05°EDuchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WTamengo — 19.12°S, 57.64°WTamengo — 19.02°S, 57.68°WUrusis — 22.00°S, 17.00°EBreivik — 70.90°N, 28.67°EStappogiedde — 70.58°N, 28.18°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.08°ERaiga — 59.40°N, 85.67°EKatanga — 54.43°N, 104.02°EVermilion — 51.10°N, 115.95°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WNuduas — 28.74°S, 17.55°EUrusis — 28.74°S, 17.55°EDeep Spring — 37.35°N, 117.32°WLandeyran — 43.57°N, 3.37°E

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The named rock units Vendotaenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vendotaenia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Vendotaenia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Vendotaenia, 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

18 references

Each of the 22 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Vendotaenia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Vendotaenia 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.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Vendotaenia 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 itVendotaeniales through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gnilovskaya 1971