Igorella xundianensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IgorellaPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Igorella xundianensis 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- 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 Igorella xundianensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Igorella xundianensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Igorella xundianensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Absidaticonus ovatus1 site
- Emarginoconus mirus1 site
- Helcionella explanata1 site
- Ilsanella orectus1 site
- Ilsanella rozanovi1 site
- Maikhanella pristinis1 site
- Mobergella1 site
- Ocruranus finial1 site
- Oelandiella korobkovi1 site
- Pteromus jungus1 site
- Pteromus rapius1 site
- Purella squamulosa1 site
- Ramenta superata1 site
- Yunnanopleura accurata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Igorella xundianensis, 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- Monoplacophoran Igorella-type pore-channel structures from the Lower Cambrian in China1
- New mollusks and problematic fossils from the Lower Cambrian of China1
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. 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 Igorella xundianensis 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 Igorella xundianensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Igorella xundianensis 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 itIgorella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1994