Crossbitheca
No picture of Crossbitheca 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 Crossbitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CircothecidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Crossbitheca 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Crossbitheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Crossbitheca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Crossbitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Aldanella attleborensis3 sites
- Anabarites kelleri3 sites
- Barskovia hemisymmetrica3 sites
- Bemella jacutica3 sites
- Cambrotubulus decurvatus3 sites
- Ladatheca3 sites
- Purella cristata3 sites
- Salanyella costulata3 sites
- Selindeochrea ternaria3 sites
- Anabarella plana2 sites
- Anabarites hexasulcatus2 sites
- Anabarites latus2 sites
- Anabarites signatus2 sites
- Anabarites tristichus2 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis2 sites
- Halkieria2 sites
- Helcionella antiqua2 sites
- Igorella ungulata2 sites
- Kotuyitheca curta2 sites
- Nikatheca2 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Securiconus simus2 sites
- Selindeochrea tecta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crossbitheca, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphy of the Vendian-Cambrian beds and the lower Cambrian boundary in Siberia2
- Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work2
Each 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. 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 Crossbitheca 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 Crossbitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crossbitheca 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 itCircothecidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky 1974