Lapworthella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LapworthellidaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 508.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 504.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 192 of 192 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 2 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 2 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 2 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 2 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 2 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 2 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 3 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 3 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 4 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 4 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 6 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 11 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 11 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 11 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 13 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 15 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 15 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 15 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 15 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 16 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 10 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 10 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 5 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 4 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525.5 Mya508.2 Mya539.5 Mya503.8 Mya

192 occurrences of Lapworthella 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

192 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

40 formations

Ajax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EMernmerna — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna — 31.02°S, 139.24°EMernmerna — 30.79°S, 139.14°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.58°N, 2.67°WLower Comley — 52.54°N, 2.80°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°ETyuser — 71.52°N, 127.37°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EAndamooka Limestone — 30.12°S, 137.16°EChapel Island — 45.62°N, 61.97°WChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WChapel Island — 47.07°N, 55.87°WWirrapowie Limestone — 30.79°S, 139.14°EBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°EDengying — 28.27°N, 103.40°EWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWades Lane — 45.08°N, 66.75°WShiyantou — 27.93°N, 103.56°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.18°EQiongzhusi — 24.75°N, 102.52°EQiongzhusi — 24.73°N, 102.57°ECuslett — 45.77°N, 60.29°WKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°ENepabunna Siltstone — 30.72°S, 139.18°EKhairkhan — 46.87°N, 95.80°EJiulaodong — 29.60°N, 103.48°E

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The named rock units Lapworthella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lapworthella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Lapworthella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Lapworthella, 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

37 references

Each of the 192 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 Lapworthella was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lapworthella itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lapworthella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobbold 1921