Namacalathus hermanastes
Uncredited · 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
- NamacalathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Namacalathus
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Namacalathus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Namacalathus
- Environment
- inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Namacalathus
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Namacalathus hermanastes on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Zaris Formation · Kuibis Group3
- Urusis Formation · Nama Group2
- Tagatiya Guazu Formation · Itapucumi Group2
- Urusis Formation · Schwarzrand Group2
- Byng Formation · Miette Group1
- Zaris Formation · Kuibis Group1
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The named rock units Namacalathus hermanastes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Cloudina hartmannae7 sites
- <Thrombolite>3 sites
- Cloudina lucianoi2 sites
- <Stromatolite>1 site
- Aspidella1 site
- Bergauria sp.1 site
- Cloudina sp.1 site
- Conichnus1 site
- Corumbella werneri1 site
- Ernietta plateauensis1 site
- Helminthopsis1 site
- Namapoikia rietoogensis1 site
- Obruchevella1 site
- Parapsammichnites1 site
- Platella1 site
- Pteridinium simplex1 site
- Rangeomorpha1 site
- Swartpuntia germsi1 site
- Treptichnidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Namacalathus hermanastes, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
6 references- Pushing the boundary: A calibrated Ediacaran-Cambrian stratigraphic record from the Nama Group in northwestern Republic of South Africa3
- Supplemental Data for Ediacaran Diversification Rates2
- Cloudina-Corumbella-Namacalathus association from the Itapucumi Group, Paraguay: Increasing ecosystem complexity and tiering at the end of the Ediacaran2
- Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia2
- Ediacaran metazoan reveals lophotrochozoan affinity and deepens root of Cambrian Explosion1
- Namacalathus-Cloudina assemblage in Neoproterozoic Miette Group (Byng Formation), British Columbia: Canada's oldest shelly fossils1
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
Media content2
Picture of Namacalathus hermanastes
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itNamacalathus through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grotzinger et al. 2000