Alborsella
No picture of Alborsella 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 Alborsella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychaspididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychaspididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alborsella 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
3 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
3 formations
- Mila Formation1
- Seydisehir Formation1
- Deh-Molla Formation · Mila Group1
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The named rock units Alborsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alborsella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Alborsella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Billingsella seletensis1 site
- Pagodia1 site
- Syntrophioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alborsella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- First record of silicified Cambrian (Furongian) rhynchonelliform brachiopods from the Mila Formation, Alborz Range, Iran1
- Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites of the Samur Dag area, south of Hakkari, southeastern Turkey1
- Latest Middle Cambrian metazoan reef from northern Iran1
Each of the 3 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 Alborsella 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 Alborsella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alborsella 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 itPtychaspididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kushan 1973