Maotianshania cylindrica

No picture of Maotianshania cylindrica 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 Maotianshania cylindrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MaotianshaniaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Maotianshania
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Maotianshania
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Maotianshania
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 17 of 17 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 1 occurrence521–519 Mya — about 3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 3 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences515–514 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

17 occurrences of Maotianshania cylindrica 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

17 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

Qiongzhusi — 24.67°N, 102.92°EYuanshan — 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°EShipai — 30.79°N, 111.17°E

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

Maotianshania cylindrica and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Maotianshania cylindrica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Maotianshania cylindrica, 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

7 references

Each of the 17 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 cylindrica 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 Maotianshania cylindrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

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