Ivesheadia
No picture of Ivesheadia was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ivesheadia itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ivesheadia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
- Diet
- osmotroph, chemoautotrophPBDB
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Ivesheadia on record. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Fermeuse Formation · St John's Group6
- Mistaken Point Formation · Conception Group5
- Trepassey Formation · St John's Group3
- Bradgate Formation · Maplewood Group2
- Ives Head Formation · Blackbrook Group1
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The named rock units Ivesheadia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aspidella terranovica9 sites
- Vinlandia antecedens8 sites
- Bradgatia linfordensis6 sites
- Primocandelabrum6 sites
- Charnia masoni5 sites
- Charniodiscus4 sites
- Hadrynichorde catalinensis4 sites
- Hiemalora stellaris4 sites
- Arborea spinosa2 sites
- Aspidella2 sites
- Charnia2 sites
- Fractofusus andersoni2 sites
- Fractofusus misrai2 sites
- Parviscopa bonavistensis2 sites
- Arborea arborea1 site
- Blackbrookia oaksi1 site
- Charnia grandis1 site
- Hadryniscala avalonica1 site
- Primocandelabrum hiemaloranum1 site
- Shepshedia palmata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Ivesheadia, 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
3 references- Ediacaran biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada14
- A rich Ediacaran assemblage from eastern Avalonia: Evidence of early widespread diversity in the deep ocean2
- Ediacaran fossils from the Precambrian (Charnian Supergroup) of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England1
Each of the 17 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 Ivesheadia was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ivesheadia itself, so it was not used.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ivesheadia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boynton and Ford 1996