Helcionella capula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelcionellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 500.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Helcionella capula 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
3 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
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The named rock units Helcionella capula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helcionella capula and its relatives
CambrianWhere Helcionella capula and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Aladraco schloppensis1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Cambrachelous diploprosopus1 site
- Dorispira comma1 site
- Grantitheca1 site
- Helcionella lemdadensis1 site
- Helcionella subrugosa1 site
- Helcionelloidea1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Igorella1 site
- Ilsanella oblonga1 site
- Indiana dermatoides1 site
- Indota1 site
- Kingaspidoides1 site
- Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis1 site
- Kingaspidoides meieri1 site
- Leptostega abrupta1 site
- Leptostega frankenwaldensis1 site
- Marocella mira1 site
- Maxilites1 site
- Parasolenopleura wurmi1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Pelagiella lorenzi1 site
- Pseudobeyrichona monile1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Helcionella capula, 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
2 references- Helcionelloids, stenothecoids and hyoliths from the Tannenknock Formation (traditional lower middle Stage 4/Wuliuan boundary interval) of the Franconian Forest, Germany2
- Mittelkambrishe Mollusken aus Marokko und Spanien1
Each of the 3 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. 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
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No picture of Helcionella capula 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 Helcionella capula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helcionella capula was found in Sketchfab.
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 itHelcionella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 1986