Wronascolex
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeoscolecidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Palaeoscolecida
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 504.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Wronascolex 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
8 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
5 formations
- Sinsk Formation2
- Marsden Sandstone Formation2
- Balang Formation2
- Lead Bell Shale Formation1
- Tianpeng Formation1
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The named rock units Wronascolex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wronascolex and its relatives
CambrianWhere Wronascolex and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
210 taxa- Arthricocephalus chauveaui2 sites
- Arthropoda2 sites
- Changaspis elongata2 sites
- Comptaluta inflata2 sites
- Duyunaspis duyunensis2 sites
- Hurdiidae2 sites
- Isoxys2 sites
- Isoxys communis2 sites
- Leptomitidae2 sites
- Leptomitus teretiusculus2 sites
- Palaeoscolecida2 sites
- Priapulida2 sites
- Qingquanella2 sites
- Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) chinensis2 sites
- Tuzoia2 sites
- Tuzoia australis2 sites
- Tuzoia retifera2 sites
- Wapkia2 sites
- Acinocricus stichus1 site
- Alalcomenaeus1 site
- Allonnia1 site
- Amplectobeluidae1 site
- Ancalagon1 site
- Anomalocaris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Wronascolex, 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
7 references- Articulated palaeoscolecid sclerite arrays from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Siberia2
- First Occurrence of Wronascolex sp. (Palaeoscolecida, Priapulida) in the Cambrian Tianpeng Formation (Wuliuan Stage), Southeastern Yunnan, South China: Implications for a New Burgess Shale-Type Lagerstätte1
- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- First report of the Pingding locality of the Balang Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 4), South China: Implications for community complexity and geographic variation1
- The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana1
- Early Cambrian arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia1
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
Each of the 8 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 Wronascolex was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wronascolex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPalaeoscolecidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ivantsov and Zhuravlev 2005