Alutella
No picture of Alutella 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 Alutella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ComptalutidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bradoriida
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Alutella 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Alutella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alutella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Alutella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Guizhoueocrinus yui2 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus2 sites
- Probowmania2 sites
- Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) chinensis2 sites
- Redlichia (Pteroredlichia) murakamii2 sites
- Acrothele1 site
- Arthricocephalus chauveaui1 site
- Bradoriida1 site
- Byronia1 site
- Changaspis micropyge1 site
- Comptaluta inflata1 site
- Comptaluta kailiensis1 site
- Linevitus lentiformis1 site
- Nisusia kotujensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Alutella, 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
2 references- Early Cambrian eocrinoids from Guizhou Province, South China2
- New bradoriid arthropods from the Early Cambrian Balang Formation of eastern Guizhou, south China1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Alutella 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 Alutella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alutella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itComptalutidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.