Choiaella radiata
No picture of Choiaella radiata 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 Choiaella radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChoiaellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Choiaella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Choiaella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Choiaella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Choiaella
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
17 occurrences of Choiaella radiata 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
17 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Choiaella radiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Choiaella radiata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Choiaella radiata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Misszhouia longicaudata13 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta11 sites
- Isoxys auritus11 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa11 sites
- Naraoia spinosa11 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis9 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus9 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei9 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis9 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma9 sites
- Leptomitus teretiusculus8 sites
- Saetaspongia densa8 sites
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata7 sites
- Canadaspis laevigata7 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis7 sites
- Houcaris saron7 sites
- Naraoia7 sites
- Retifacies abnormalis7 sites
- Chuandianella ovata6 sites
- Diandongia pista6 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata6 sites
- Isoxys curvirostratus6 sites
- Selkirkia sinica6 sites
- Yunnanocephalus yunnanensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Choiaella radiata, 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
7 references- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China5
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China3
- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China3
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China2
- Lower Cambrian demosponges and hexactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China2
- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna in eastern Yunnan, CHina1
Each of the 17 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Choiaella radiata 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 Choiaella radiata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Choiaella radiata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChoiaella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Hou 1995