Heliomedusa

Heliomedusa

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MickwitziidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 41 of 41 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 4 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 4 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 4 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 4 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 4 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 4 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 4 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 Mya – 514.5 Mya521.5 Mya506 Mya

41 occurrences of Heliomedusa 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

41 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

5 formations

Yuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.00°N, 102.00°EYu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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

Heliomedusa and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Heliomedusa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Heliomedusa, 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

11 references

Each of the 41 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

Media content1

Picture of Heliomedusa

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliomedusa 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 itMickwitziidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sun and Hou 1987