Cephalonega stepanovi

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CephalonegaPBDB
- Diet
- osmotrophPBDB, for Cephalonega
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cephalonega
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cephalonega
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalonega
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Cephalonega stepanovi on record. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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 Cephalonega stepanovi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aspidella5 sites
- Cyanorus singularis5 sites
- Kimberella quadrata5 sites
- Armillifera4 sites
- Dickinsonia tenuis4 sites
- Palaeophragmodictya4 sites
- Tamga hamulifera4 sites
- Tribrachidium heraldicum4 sites
- Dickinsonia costata3 sites
- Lossinia3 sites
- Parvancorina minchami3 sites
- Yorgia waggoneri3 sites
- Paravendia janae2 sites
- Parvancorina sagitta2 sites
- Solza margarita2 sites
- Temnoxa molliuscula2 sites
- Vendia rachiata2 sites
- Albumares brunsae1 site
- Andiva ivantsovi1 site
- Anfesta1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Archaeaspinus fedonkini1 site
- Archangelia valdaica1 site
- Armilifera parva1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cephalonega stepanovi, 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
4 references- Paleoecological reconstruction of the Ediacaran benthic macroscopic communities of the White Sea (Russia)4
- Small Vendian Transversely Articulated Fossils2
- A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians1
- New organic fossil finds in the Precambrian Valday series along the Syuz'ma River1
Each of the 8 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
Media content1

Picture of Cephalonega stepanovi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Iranshahi.Amir Ali
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCephalonega through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fedonkin 1977)