Anabarites

Anabarites is a problematic lower Cambrian genus, and is one of the small shelly fossils. It was abundant in the early Tommotian and is also found in the Nemakit-Daldynian. The fossils represent the triradially symmetrical mineralised tube in which the organism dwelt; it was sedentary. It is named after the Anabar region in Yakutia, Russia; its name does not imply 'heavy'.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnabaritidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anabaritidae

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 262 of 264 occurrencesCambrian638–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–629 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629–624 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences624–620 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences620–615 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615–611 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences611–606 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences606–602 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences602–597 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences597–593 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences593–589 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences589–584 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences584–580 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences580–575 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences575–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–566 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences566–562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences562–557 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences557–553 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences553–548 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences548–544 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences544–540 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences540–535 Mya — about 31 occurrences535–531 Mya — about 37 occurrences531–526 Mya — about 49 occurrences526–522 Mya — about 93 occurrences522–517 Mya — about 25 occurrences517–513 Mya — about 22 occurrences513–508 Mya — about 5 occurrences508–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences538.8 Mya516 Mya638 Mya504 Mya

264 occurrences of Anabarites 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

264 occurrences

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

38 formations

Dengying — 30.77°N, 111.32°EDengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EDengying — 25.48°N, 103.03°EDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°EDengying — 28.27°N, 106.30°EDengying — 32.35°N, 106.82°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EDengying — 30.77°N, 111.12°EDengying — 32.97°N, 106.25°EDengying — 25.52°N, 103.07°EDengying — 24.72°N, 102.56°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.08°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.03°EYanjiahe — 30.78°N, 111.35°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EPestrotsvet — 71.50°N, 105.00°EPestrotsvet — 57.40°N, 132.73°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°EEmyaksin — 62.00°N, 129.67°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.76°EKuanchuanpu — 33.00°N, 106.17°EKuanchuanpu — 32.94°N, 106.23°EKuanchuanpu — 32.94°N, 107.70°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EMedvezhin — 70.50°N, 103.40°EMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°EZhujiaqing — 24.67°N, 102.65°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EYudoma — 59.47°N, 135.80°EYudoma — 57.40°N, 132.73°EYudoma — 58.37°N, 133.17°EMedvezhya — 71.33°N, 99.50°EMedvezhya — 70.14°N, 114.00°EMedvezhyn — 71.00°N, 102.00°EKessyusa — 72.09°N, 124.59°EKessyusa — 70.96°N, 122.34°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EUst-Yudoma — 57.25°N, 131.20°EUst-Yudoma — 57.67°N, 131.83°EUst-Yudoma — 57.17°N, 132.00°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EManykay — 70.57°N, 103.57°EManykay — 70.50°N, 103.40°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°EManykay — 70.72°N, 112.76°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°ESoltanieh — 35.67°N, 51.42°ETsagaan Oloom — 46.77°N, 95.60°ETsagaan Oloom — 46.82°N, 95.77°ETsagaan Oloom — 46.70°N, 96.30°EChapel Island — 46.92°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WBayan Gol — 46.70°N, 96.30°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°E

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The named rock units Anabarites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anabarites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Anabarites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

553 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 177 sites for Anabarites, 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

51 references

Each of the 264 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. 39 further references are not listed. 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 Anabarites 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 Anabarites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969