Malongella bituberculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalongellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bradoriida
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Malongella bituberculata 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
4 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 Malongella bituberculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Malongella bituberculata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Malongella bituberculata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Branchiocaris yunnanensis2 sites
- Choiaella radiata2 sites
- Diandongia pista2 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta2 sites
- Houcaris saron2 sites
- Isoxys auritus2 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa2 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis2 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata2 sites
- Naraoia spinosa2 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma2 sites
- Paraleptomitella globula2 sites
- Retifacies abnormalis2 sites
- Allonina phrixothrix1 site
- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus1 site
- Amplectobelua1 site
- Amplectobelua symbrachiata1 site
- Archisaccophyllia kunmingensis1 site
- Archotuba conoidalis1 site
- Burithes yunnanensis1 site
- Canadaspis laevigata1 site
- Choia1 site
- Chuandianella ovata1 site
- Cindarella eucalla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Malongella bituberculata, 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
3 references- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China2
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
Each of the 4 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 Malongella bituberculata 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 Malongella bituberculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Malongella bituberculata 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 itMalongella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang 1974