Maldeotaia bandalica
No picture of Maldeotaia bandalica 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 Maldeotaia bandalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MongolodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chaetognatha
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chaetognatha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chaetognatha
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Maldeotaia bandalica 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
3 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 Maldeotaia bandalica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Maldeotaia bandalica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Maldeotaia bandalica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Aldanella attleborensis2 sites
- Allatheca degeeri2 sites
- Anabarites korobovi2 sites
- Archaeospira avalonensis2 sites
- Bemella vonbitteri2 sites
- Coleoloides typicalis2 sites
- Fomitchella infundabiliformis2 sites
- Halkieria stonei2 sites
- Helcionella2 sites
- Ladatheca cylindrica2 sites
- Lapworthella2 sites
- Protohertzina anabarica2 sites
- Watsonella crosbyi2 sites
- Anabarella plana1 site
- Barbitositheca ansata1 site
- Conotheca1 site
- Eccentrotheca kanesia1 site
- Hexangulaconularia1 site
- Hyolithellus insolitus1 site
- Hyolithellus isiticus1 site
- Hyolithellus vladimirovae1 site
- Olivooides multisulcatus1 site
- Ovalitheca1 site
- Plinthokonion arethion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Maldeotaia bandalica, 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
2 references- The Placentian Series: Appearance of the oldest skeletalized faunas in southeastern Newfoundland2
- Microfossils and Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratigraphy at Maldeota, Lesser Himalaya1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Maldeotaia bandalica 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 Maldeotaia bandalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Maldeotaia bandalica 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.
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What may have been alongside itMongolodus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Singh and Shukla 1981