Maotianshania

No picture of Maotianshania was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Maotianshania 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 Maotianshania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoscolecidomorphaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Priapulida

Time the record covers

At most 42 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 1 occurrence524–522 Mya — about 1 occurrence522–521 Mya — about 2 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 4 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 4 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 1 occurrence515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Maotianshania 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

20 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

3 formations

Yuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°EYuanshan — 24.00°N, 102.00°EQiongzhusi — 24.67°N, 102.92°EShipai — 30.79°N, 111.17°E

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The named rock units Maotianshania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Maotianshania and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Maotianshania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Maotianshania, 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

8 references

Each of the 20 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. 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 Maotianshania was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Maotianshania 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 Maotianshania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Maotianshania 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 itPalaeoscolecidomorpha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sun and Huo 1987