Echidnina monactina
No picture of Echidnina monactina 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 Echidnina monactina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchidninaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Echidnina monactina 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
1 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
1 formation
- Green Point Formation · Cow Head Group1
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The named rock units Echidnina monactina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echidnina monactina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Echidnina monactina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Curvechidnina fusa1 site
- Curvechidnina longispinosa1 site
- Curvechidnina tetractina1 site
- Echidnina irregularis1 site
- Palaeospiculum1 site
- Palaeospiculum greenpointensis1 site
- Palaeospiculum tetraradiatum1 site
- Pararcheoentactinia reedae1 site
- Parechidnina aspinosa1 site
- Parechidnina jamesi1 site
- Protoentactinia gracilispinosa1 site
- Radiolaria1 site
- Subechidnina florea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Echidnina monactina, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Echidnina monactina 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 Echidnina monactina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Echidnina monactina 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 itEchidnina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Won and Iams 2002