Xianfengella yatesi
No picture of Xianfengella yatesi 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 Xianfengella yatesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XianfengellaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Yochelcionelloidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Yochelcionelloidea
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Yochelcionelloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Xianfengella yatesi 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
10 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
- Bastion Formation3
- Parara Formation2
- Mernmerna Formation2
- Aftenstjernesø Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group2
- Shackleton Limestone Formation · Lower Byrd Group1
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The named rock units Xianfengella yatesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Xianfengella yatesi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Xianfengella yatesi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Pelagiella subangulata6 sites
- Conotheca australiensis5 sites
- Davidonia rostrata5 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari5 sites
- Echinodermata4 sites
- Parkula bounites4 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis4 sites
- Anabarella australis3 sites
- Apistoconcha apheles3 sites
- Bemella communis3 sites
- Botsfordia caelata3 sites
- Davidonia taconica3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum3 sites
- Indiana secunda3 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae3 sites
- Mackinnonia corrugata3 sites
- Microcornus3 sites
- Setatella significans3 sites
- Albrunnicola2 sites
- Anhuiconus microtuberus2 sites
- Apistoconcha siphonalis2 sites
- Aroonia seposita2 sites
- Calodiscus lobatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Xianfengella yatesi, 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
5 references- Problematic cap-shaped fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North-East Greenland3
- Early aculiferan diversification shaped by Ægir-Iapetus palaeogeography: Insights from North Greenland (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4)2
- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia2
- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia2
- Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica1
Each of the 10 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 Xianfengella yatesi 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 Xianfengella yatesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xianfengella yatesi 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 itXianfengella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parkhaev 2001