Diagoniella hindei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiagoniellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Diagoniella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Diagoniella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Diagoniella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.
9 occurrences of Diagoniella hindei 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
9 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
3 formations
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group5
- Marjum Formation3
- Wheeler Formation1
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The named rock units Diagoniella hindei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Diagoniella hindei and its relatives
CambrianWhere Diagoniella hindei and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Naraoia compacta6 sites
- Ottoia prolifica6 sites
- Arthropoda5 sites
- Hamptonia bowerbanki5 sites
- Lingulella5 sites
- Micromitra5 sites
- Perspicaris5 sites
- Protospongia hicksi5 sites
- Acrothyra4 sites
- Alalcomenaeus cambricus4 sites
- Algae4 sites
- Aysheaia pedunculata4 sites
- Burgessia4 sites
- Cambrorhytium fragilis4 sites
- Cambrorhytium major4 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta4 sites
- Chancelloria eros4 sites
- Choia carteri4 sites
- Crumillospongia4 sites
- Dalyia racemata4 sites
- Dictyophycus gracilis4 sites
- Diraphora4 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis4 sites
- Eiffelia globosa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diagoniella hindei, 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
6 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale4
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)1
- Middle Cambrian sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in western Utah1
- Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia1
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
- Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Marjum Limestone from the House Range and Drum Mountains of Western Millard County, Utah1
Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Diagoniella hindei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 of Diagoniella hindei 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 itDiagoniella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1920