Galeactena hemispherica

No picture of Galeactena hemispherica 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 Galeactena hemispherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GaleactenaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenophora
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenophora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenophora

Time the record covers

At most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Galeactena hemispherica 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

2 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

1 formation

Heilinpu — 24.79°N, 102.60°EHeilinpu — 24.64°N, 102.97°E

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

Galeactena hemispherica and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Galeactena hemispherica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Galeactena hemispherica, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Galeactena hemispherica 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 Galeactena hemispherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itGaleactena through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ou et al. 2015