Elrathina

No picture of Elrathina was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Elrathina 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 Elrathina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychopariaceaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
fast-movingPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 55 of 55 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 55 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 5 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 8 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 9 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 10 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 9 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya497 Mya515.9 Mya486.3 Mya

55 occurrences of Elrathina 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

55 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

16 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.39°N, 116.43°WShallow Bay — 49.25°N, 65.57°WCarrara — 39.16°N, 119.83°WCarrara — 37.35°N, 116.13°WStephen — 52.83°N, 119.25°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.08°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.30°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WEl Gavilán — 29.28°N, 110.58°WEl Gavilán — 28.92°N, 109.29°WBlacksmith — 41.30°N, 111.72°WBlacksmith — 41.43°N, 111.94°WCathedral — 51.42°N, 116.45°WUte — 42.19°N, 112.25°WHess River — 64.53°N, 129.77°WMeagher — 45.76°N, 111.73°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 111.59°WConasauga — 34.15°N, 85.38°WPole Canyon — 38.83°N, 114.33°WLincoln Peak — 38.83°N, 114.33°W

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

Elrathina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Elrathina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

240 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Elrathina, 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

20 references

Each of the 55 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Elrathina was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Elrathina 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 Elrathina, 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 itPtychopariacea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1937