Grantitheca
No picture of Grantitheca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grantitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 503 Mya and 500.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Grantitheca 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
7 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
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The named rock units Grantitheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grantitheca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Grantitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis5 sites
- Parasolenopleura wurmi5 sites
- Cambrachelous diploprosopus4 sites
- Aladraco schloppensis3 sites
- Hyolitha3 sites
- Jincelites vogeli3 sites
- Kingaspidoides alberti3 sites
- Ornamentaspis crassilimbata3 sites
- Dorispira comma2 sites
- Helcionella2 sites
- Hexitheca2 sites
- Kingaspidoides meieri2 sites
- Parasolenopleura parabolica2 sites
- Acadoparadoxides1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Helcionella capula1 site
- Helcionelloidea1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Hyolithidae1 site
- Igorella1 site
- Ilsanella oblonga1 site
- Indiana1 site
- Indiana dermatoides1 site
- Indota1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Grantitheca, 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 7 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 Grantitheca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grantitheca, 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 itHyolithida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.