Diandongia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BotsfordiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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37 occurrences of Diandongia 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

37 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

7 formations

Yuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 25.50°N, 102.40°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 25.68°N, 102.17°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EWulongqing — 25.68°N, 102.17°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EShipai — 30.79°N, 111.17°EDeo ka Tibba — 30.38°N, 78.48°EMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°E

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

Diandongia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Diandongia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

329 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Diandongia, 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

11 references

Each of the 37 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 Diandongia 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 Diandongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diandongia 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 itBotsfordiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rong 1974