Aktugaia
No picture of Aktugaia 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 Aktugaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MobergellidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 509.7 Mya.
5 occurrences of Aktugaia 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aktugaia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aktugaia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Aktugaia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Botsfordia caelata2 sites
- Cassitella baculata2 sites
- Conotheca australiensis2 sites
- Davidonia taconica2 sites
- Discinella micans2 sites
- Eoobolus priscus2 sites
- Hyolithellus micans2 sites
- Lapworthella shodakensis2 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae2 sites
- Microcornus2 sites
- Mongolitubulus henrikseni2 sites
- Obolella crassa2 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata2 sites
- ? Conitheca sp.1 site
- <Chancelloriidae>1 site
- <Hexactinellidae>1 site
- <Orthothecidade>1 site
- <Siphogonochitidae>1 site
- <Wanneriid>1 site
- Adyshevitheca adyshevi1 site
- Adyshevitheca utchbasica1 site
- Albrunnicola1 site
- Allonia1 site
- Amphigeisina renae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Aktugaia, 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
4 references- Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland2
- Mobergellans (Problematica) from the Cambrian of Greenland, Siberia and Kazakhstan1
- Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]1
- New data on Early Cambrian Monoplacophorans1
Each of the 5 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 Aktugaia 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 Aktugaia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aktugaia 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 itMobergellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky 1976