Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CloudinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cloudina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cloudina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cloudina
- Environment
- inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Cloudina
Time the record covers
At most 106 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 529 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis 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- Cambrian3%
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 Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Sinotubulites baimatuoensis3 sites
- Anabarites yuanbaoshanensis2 sites
- Cambricodium2 sites
- Cloudina hartmannae2 sites
- Cloudina ningqiangensis2 sites
- Multiconotubus chinensis2 sites
- Archaeooides1 site
- Cloudina carinata1 site
- Cloudina hartmanae1 site
- Cloudina petala1 site
- Costatubus bibendi1 site
- Dictyotubulus circularis n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Obruchevella parva1 site
- Palaeorhopalon spiniferum1 site
- Problematica1 site
- Protocodium sinense1 site
- Protolagena1 site
- Protolagena limbata1 site
- Sinotubulites hexagonus1 site
- Sinotubulites pentacarinalis1 site
- Sinotubulites triangularis1 site
- Subtifloria delicata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis, 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
3 references- Systematic description of new phosphatized skeletal fossils from the upper Dengying Formation in southern Shaanxi Province of South China and their implications for the evolution of terminal Ediacaran biomineralizers1
- Cloudina-microbial reef resilience to substrate instability in a Cadomian retroarc basin of the Iberian Peninsula1
- Diverse biomineralizing animals in the terminal Ediacaran Period herald the Cambrian explosion1
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 Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis 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 Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cloudina xuanjiangpingensis 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 itCloudina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cai et al. 2017