Hemithecella eminensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemithecellaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 490.2 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Hemithecella eminensis 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
8 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 Hemithecella eminensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hemithecella eminensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Hemithecella eminensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Aulochiton sannerae2 sites
- Paradycheia dorisae2 sites
- Archeoconus missourensis1 site
- Biloboconus frizzelli1 site
- Chelodes cooperi1 site
- Finkelnburgia missouriensis1 site
- Orthoconus striatus1 site
- Potosiplina delorensis1 site
- Schizopea normalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hemithecella eminensis, 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
2 references- Some molluscan problematica from the Upper Cambrian - Lower Ordovician of the Ozark uplift5
- Upper Cambrian chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from Missouri, USA3
Each of the 8 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 Hemithecella eminensis 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 Hemithecella eminensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemithecella eminensis 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 itHemithecella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stinchcomb and Darrough 1995