Kulangarra

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SulcavitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At most 5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 508 Mya and 503 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCambrian508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508.5 Mya502.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Kulangarra 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

5 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

2 formations

Gowers — 19.50°S, 138.93°EGowers — 19.57°S, 138.92°EBeetle Creek — 21.83°S, 139.98°E

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

Kulangarra and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Kulangarra and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Kulangarra, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Kulangarra 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSulcavitidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kruse 2002