Asiatella elegans
No picture of Asiatella elegans 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 Asiatella elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsiatellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ellipsocephalidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Asiatella elegans 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
1 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 Asiatella elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asiatella elegans and its relatives
CambrianWhere Asiatella elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Ajacicyathida1 site
- Archaeolynthus1 site
- Ascocyathus yavorskii1 site
- Baikalocyathus1 site
- Basanellus1 site
- Cambrocyathellus1 site
- Cambrocyathellus robustus1 site
- Coscinocyathus1 site
- Degeletticyathus1 site
- Dokidocyathus1 site
- Formosocyathus1 site
- Geocyathus1 site
- Gordonicyathus1 site
- Irinaecyathus1 site
- Kijacyathus1 site
- Kijanella1 site
- Leptosocyathus1 site
- Loculicyathus1 site
- Mackenziecyathus1 site
- Mundocephalina1 site
- Nochoroicyathus1 site
- Nochoroicyathus diadromus1 site
- Nochoroicyathus howelli1 site
- Orbicyathellus bogradi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Asiatella elegans, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Asiatella elegans 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 Asiatella elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Asiatella elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAsiatella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Repina 1964