Dabashanella

Dabashanella is a genus of phosphatocopine crustacean of the family Dabashanellidae. Four species, an indeterminate form and a possible fifth species are recognized.

Dabashanella

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DabashanellidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 504.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516 Mya506.5 Mya521.5 Mya504 Mya

7 occurrences of Dabashanella 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

7 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

3 formations

Henson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°WBeetle Creek — 21.81°S, 139.98°EShuijingtuo — 32.53°N, 107.92°EShuijingtuo — 34.32°N, 108.70°E

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

Dabashanella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Dabashanella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dabashanella, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Dabashanella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huo et al 1983