Mongolitubulus

Mongolitubulus is a form genus encapsulating a range of ornamented conical small shelly fossils of the Cambrian period. It is potentially synonymous with Rushtonites, Tubuterium and certain species of Rhombocorniculum, and owing to the similarity of the genera, they are all dealt with herein. Organisms that bore Mongolitubulus-like projections include trilobites, bradoriid arthropods and hallucigeniid lobopodians.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MongolitubulidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bradoriida

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 499 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 75 of 75 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 1 occurrence528–527 Mya — about 2 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 2 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 3 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 8 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 8 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 7 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 6 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 3 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 4 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–496 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences521 Mya499 Mya539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

75 occurrences of Mongolitubulus 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

75 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

19 formations

Wirrapowie Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EWirrapowie Limestone — 30.79°S, 139.14°EAjax Limestone — 30.60°S, 138.33°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.85°S, 140.01°EKuonamka — 70.74°N, 112.98°EKuonamka — 70.22°N, 113.70°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EMernmerna — 31.02°S, 139.24°EMernmerna — 30.79°S, 139.14°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EHenson Gletscher — 82.00°N, 42.00°WHenson Gletscher — 82.17°N, 40.40°WBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.33°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EShabakty — 43.60°N, 69.45°EBystrinskaya — 43.11°N, 74.78°ELower Comley — 52.58°N, 2.67°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WShannon — 23.61°S, 134.49°EKutorgina — 61.13°N, 126.80°ECape Melville — 62.03°S, 57.60°WAnse Maranda — 46.83°N, 71.09°WParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°ECoobowie Limestone — 34.67°S, 137.85°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°E

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The named rock units Mongolitubulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mongolitubulus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Mongolitubulus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

373 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Mongolitubulus, 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

18 references

Each of the 75 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Mongolitubulus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mongolitubulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Missarzhevsky 1977