Emeraldella brocki
No picture of Emeraldella brocki was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Emeraldella brocki itself, so it was not used. 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 Emeraldella brocki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EmeraldellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Emeraldella
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Emeraldella
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Emeraldella
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Emeraldella brocki 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
10 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
- Burgess Shale Formation · Chancellor Group10
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The named rock units Emeraldella brocki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Emeraldella brocki and its relatives
CambrianWhere Emeraldella brocki and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Burgessia10 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta10 sites
- Diraphora10 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis10 sites
- Hazelia10 sites
- Liangshanella10 sites
- Marrella splendens10 sites
- Molaria10 sites
- Naraoia compacta10 sites
- Ottoia prolifica10 sites
- Perspicaris10 sites
- Scenella amii10 sites
- Selkirkia columbia10 sites
- Waptia fieldensis10 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata10 sites
- Yohoia10 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus9 sites
- Lingulella9 sites
- Micromitra9 sites
- Morania9 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens9 sites
- Takakkawia lineata9 sites
- Trilobita9 sites
- Acrothyra8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Emeraldella brocki, 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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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
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No picture of Emeraldella brocki was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Emeraldella brocki itself, so it was not used.
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 Emeraldella brocki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Emeraldella brocki 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 itEmeraldella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912