Capitoconus borealis

No picture of Capitoconus borealis 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 Capitoconus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CapitoconusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya506.5 Mya515.8 Mya504 Mya

2 occurrences of Capitoconus borealis 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

2 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

1 formation

Henson Gletscher — 82.50°N, 36.33°W

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The named rock units Capitoconus borealis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Capitoconus borealis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Capitoconus borealis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Capitoconus borealis, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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 Capitoconus borealis 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 Capitoconus borealis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Capitoconus borealis 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.

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What may have been alongside itCapitoconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peel et al. 2016