Elrathina cordillerae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElrathinaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Elrathina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Elrathina
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Elrathina
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Elrathina cordillerae 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
21 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
2 formations
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group20
- El Gavilán Formation1
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The named rock units Elrathina cordillerae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elrathina cordillerae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Elrathina cordillerae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
129 taxa- Diraphora18 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis18 sites
- Hazelia18 sites
- Liangshanella18 sites
- Selkirkia columbia18 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata18 sites
- Marrella splendens17 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens17 sites
- Burgessia16 sites
- Morania16 sites
- Scenella amii16 sites
- Sidneyia16 sites
- Yohoia16 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta15 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus15 sites
- Laggania15 sites
- Micromitra15 sites
- Ottoia prolifica15 sites
- Pollingeria grandis15 sites
- Waptia fieldensis15 sites
- Lingulella13 sites
- Naraoia compacta13 sites
- Tubullela sp.13 sites
- Hurdia12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Elrathina cordillerae, 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
4 references- Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale18
- Paleoecology of Cambrian-Ordovician marine communities of Arivechi, eastern Sonora, Mexico: paleoenvironmental considerations1
- Palaeontology and depositional environments of ancient brine seeps in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale at The Monarch, British Columbia, Canada1
- The Burgess Shale and associated Cambrian formations west of the Fossil Gully Fault Zone on Mount Stephen, British Columbia1
Each of the 21 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 Elrathina cordillerae 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 Elrathina cordillerae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elrathina cordillerae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itElrathina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rominger 1887)