Calathites spinalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalathitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ctenophora
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ctenophora
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenophora
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Calathites spinalis 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Calathites spinalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Calathites spinalis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Calathites spinalis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Yuganotheca elegans2 sites
- Acanthomeridion serratum1 site
- Acosmia maotiania1 site
- Allantospongia mica1 site
- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus1 site
- Amiskwia1 site
- Amplectobelua1 site
- Anthotrum robustus1 site
- Banffia1 site
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis1 site
- Cambrorhytium1 site
- Cardiodictyon catenulum1 site
- Cathaymyrus1 site
- Cheungkongella ancestralis1 site
- Choia1 site
- Choiaella radiata1 site
- Chuandianella ovata1 site
- Cindarella eucalla1 site
- Combinivalvula chengjiangensis1 site
- Conicula striata1 site
- Corynetis brevis1 site
- Cotyledion tylodes1 site
- Cricocosmia1 site
- Cyathocephalus bispinosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Calathites spinalis, 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
2 references- Adaptations to changing substrates in diploblastic dinomischids from the early Cambrian2
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of 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 Calathites spinalis 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 Calathites spinalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Calathites spinalis 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 itCalathites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Luo et al. 1999