Kelanella altaica

No picture of Kelanella altaica 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 Kelanella altaica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KelanellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tommotiida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tommotiida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tommotiida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tommotiida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 7.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 508.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 499.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 Mya508.2 Mya521.5 Mya499 Mya

8 occurrences of Kelanella altaica 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

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

Dengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EKameshkovskiy — 51.97°N, 85.97°EKameshki — 54.50°N, 88.50°EPardailhan — 43.34°N, 2.52°ESalanygol — 51.57°N, 93.06°E

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

Kelanella altaica and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kelanella altaica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Kelanella altaica, 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

4 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Kelanella altaica 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 Kelanella altaica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Kelanella altaica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itKelanella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966