Cymatopegma semiplicatum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CymatopegmaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia

Time the record covers

At least 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.3 Mya to 486.85 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 491 Mya to 484.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 22 of 23 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 23 occurrencesOrdovician491–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–484 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488.3 Mya486.85 Mya491.5 Mya483.8 Mya

23 occurrences of Cymatopegma semiplicatum 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

23 occurrences

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

Tomahawk — 22.00°S, 134.83°ETomahawk — 21.55°S, 133.88°ETomahawk — 23.75°S, 132.83°ETomahawk — 22.70°S, 133.05°ETomahawk — 22.42°S, 136.26°ETomahawk — 21.73°S, 136.38°ETomahawk — 22.27°S, 136.04°ETomahawk — 22.87°S, 136.27°ETomahawk — 22.90°S, 135.46°ETomahawk — 21.62°S, 136.51°ETomahawk — 22.06°S, 138.91°EPacoota — 23.70°S, 133.43°EPacoota — 23.62°S, 134.50°EPacoota — 23.65°S, 134.43°EPacoota — 23.62°S, 134.55°EPacoota — 23.67°S, 134.33°EPacoota — 23.75°S, 133.33°EPacoota — 23.92°S, 132.81°E

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The named rock units Cymatopegma semiplicatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cymatopegma semiplicatum and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cymatopegma semiplicatum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Cymatopegma semiplicatum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 23 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

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No picture of Cymatopegma semiplicatum 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 Cymatopegma semiplicatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cymatopegma semiplicatum 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.

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What may have been alongside itCymatopegma through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta et al. 1977