Marrella splendens

Marrella splendens

Smith609 at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarrellaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Marrella
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Marrella
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Marrella

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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26 occurrences of Marrella splendens 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

26 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

1 formation

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°W

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

Marrella splendens and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Marrella splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Marrella splendens, 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

Each of the 26 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

Media content1

Picture of Marrella splendens

Credit
Smith609 at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Marrella splendens 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 itMarrella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912