Bercutia
No picture of Bercutia 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 Bercutia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LapworthellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tommotiida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tommotiida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tommotiida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tommotiida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 525.5 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bercutia 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
4 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 Bercutia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bercutia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bercutia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Hyolithellus vladimirovae4 sites
- Torellella biconvexa4 sites
- Uniformitheca aladzharica4 sites
- Uniformitheca ovaliformis4 sites
- Conotheca mammilata3 sites
- Halkieria sacciformis3 sites
- Camenella korolevi2 sites
- Geresia rugosa2 sites
- Halkieria amorphe2 sites
- Halkieria denlanatiformis2 sites
- Cambroclavus clavus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Hyolithellus vitricus1 site
- Kijacus kijanicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bercutia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bercutia 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 Bercutia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLapworthellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981