Lenastella mucronata
No picture of Lenastella mucronata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Lenastella mucronata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EiffeliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Eiffelia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Heteractinida
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Lenastella mucronata 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
16 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lenastella mucronata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lenastella mucronata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lenastella mucronata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Cambroclavus clavus13 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis11 sites
- Chancelloria10 sites
- Amphigeisina renae9 sites
- Asijatheca probata8 sites
- Cambroclavus antis8 sites
- Hyolithellus vladimirovae8 sites
- Adyshevitheca adyshevi6 sites
- Adyshevitheca utchbasica6 sites
- Burithes elongatus6 sites
- Microdictyon effusum6 sites
- Pseudoclavus singularis6 sites
- Cambroclavus undulatus5 sites
- Lenastella aculeata5 sites
- Lenastella umbonata5 sites
- Microcornus parvulus5 sites
- Ninella serebrjannikovae5 sites
- Asijatheca4 sites
- Glauderia multifidus4 sites
- Halkieria curvativa4 sites
- Microcornus4 sites
- Protowenella plena4 sites
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum4 sites
- Allonia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lenastella mucronata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 16 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lenastella mucronata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Lenastella mucronata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lenastella mucronata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEiffelia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981