Cowiella reticulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CowiellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Palaeoscolecida
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Cowiella reticulata 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cowiella reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cowiella reticulata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cowiella reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Amphigeisina danica4 sites
- Eccentrotheca kanesia4 sites
- Lapworthella3 sites
- Obolus3 sites
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum3 sites
- Sunnaginia imbricata3 sites
- Acrothyra2 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
- Coleoloides typicalis2 sites
- Cowiella verrucata2 sites
- Eoobolus viridis2 sites
- Hertzina2 sites
- Hyolithellus micans2 sites
- Mongolitubulus spinosus2 sites
- Paterina2 sites
- Rushtonia2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) comleyensis1 site
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) ellipsocephaloides1 site
- Acrothyra sera1 site
- Amphigeisina1 site
- Andrarina1 site
- Cowiella undulata1 site
- Curtica minuta1 site
- Dorypyge lakei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cowiella reticulata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cowiella reticulata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cowiella reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cowiella reticulata 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 itCowiella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinz 1987