Lapworthella dentata
No picture of Lapworthella dentata 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 Lapworthella dentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LapworthellaPBDB
- 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 most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516.2 Mya and 506.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lapworthella dentata 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lapworthella dentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lapworthella dentata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lapworthella dentata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Amphigeisina danica1 site
- Calcihexactina1 site
- Calodiscus lobatus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Cobboldites1 site
- Coleoloides typicalis1 site
- Eoobolus viridis1 site
- Exilitheca1 site
- Hadimopanella apicata1 site
- Hertzina1 site
- Hyolithellus micans1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Latouchella1 site
- Mellopegma indecora1 site
- Microcornus parvulus1 site
- Microdictyon sphaeroides1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Pelagiella1 site
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum1 site
- Selindeochrea tricarinata1 site
- Spinulitheca billingsi1 site
- Turcutheca1 site
- Yochelcionella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lapworthella dentata, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Lapworthella dentata 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 Lapworthella dentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lapworthella dentata 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 itLapworthella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky 1969