Wanshania

No picture of Wanshania 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 Wanshania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiostegiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Leiostegiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 3.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 500.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 27 of 27 occurrencesCambrian501–500 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences501 Mya496.5 Mya

27 occurrences of Wanshania 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

27 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

3 formations

Huaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EXijiadian — 32.80°N, 111.45°E

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The named rock units Wanshania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Wanshania and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Wanshania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Wanshania, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 27 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

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No picture of Wanshania 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 Wanshania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Wanshania 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLeiostegiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong and Yang 1977