Ediacaria

No picture of Ediacaria was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ediacaria itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ediacaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProblematicaPBDB
Diet
osmotrophPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 11 occurrences638–633 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences633–628 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences628–623 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences623–617 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences617–612 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences612–607 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences607–602 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences602–597 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences597–592 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences592–587 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences587–581 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences581–576 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences576–571 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences571–566 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences566–561 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences561–556 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences556–551 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences551–546 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences546–540 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences540–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–494 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences494–489 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences489–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538.8 Mya497 Mya638 Mya484 Mya

11 occurrences of Ediacaria 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

11 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

Stappogiedde — 70.90°N, 28.67°EStappogiedde — 70.58°N, 28.18°EZimnie Gory — 65.55°N, 39.77°ELamtsa — 64.44°N, 37.06°ELamtsa — 64.37°N, 38.34°EVerkhovka — 64.70°N, 39.03°EVerkhovka — 64.43°N, 39.56°EBooley Bay — 52.22°N, 6.92°WAntelope Mountain Quartzite — 41.70°N, 122.75°WArumbera Sandstone — 24.08°S, 134.68°E

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

Ediacaria and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ediacaria and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ediacaria, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Ediacaria was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ediacaria itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ediacaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sprigg 1947