Mexicella stator
No picture of Mexicella stator 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 Mexicella stator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MexicellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Ptychopariina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Mexicella stator 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
11 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mexicella stator has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mexicella stator and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mexicella stator and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Albertella highlandensis7 sites
- Mexicella mexicana6 sites
- Albertella2 sites
- Albertella nitida2 sites
- Plagiura minor2 sites
- Vanuxemella2 sites
- Volocephalina connexa2 sites
- Albertellina aspinosa1 site
- Athabaskia1 site
- Bathyuriscus1 site
- Chancia rasettii1 site
- Kochina1 site
- Kochina americana1 site
- Kootenia boucheri1 site
- Kootenia crassinucha1 site
- Mexicella granulata1 site
- Nyella immoderata1 site
- Palmerara granosa1 site
- Paralbertella bosworthi1 site
- Peronopsis1 site
- Ptarmigania1 site
- Ptarmiganoides hexacantha1 site
- Ptychoparella1 site
- Ursinella major1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mexicella stator, 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- Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada8
- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Paleontology of Northwestern Vermont. VI. The early Middle Cambrian fauna1
Each of the 11 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
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No picture of Mexicella stator 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 Mexicella stator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mexicella stator 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 itMexicella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1916)