Neobolus
No picture of Neobolus 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 Neobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BotsfordiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Neobolus 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 Neobolus 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.
Neobolus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Neobolus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Redlichia3 sites
- Discinolepis granulata2 sites
- Acrothele sougyi1 site
- Acrothele spinulosa1 site
- Botsfordia1 site
- Botsfordia caelata1 site
- Dinesus granulosa1 site
- Eocrinoidea1 site
- Estaingia bilobata1 site
- Estaingia cerastes1 site
- Estaingia fletcheri1 site
- Helcionella1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Lingulella fuchsi1 site
- Lingulella kiurensis1 site
- Marocella antiqua1 site
- Meniscuchus menetus1 site
- Pagetides1 site
- Pagetides fragum1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Scenella reticulata1 site
- Schizopholis rugosa1 site
- Serrodiscus daedalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Neobolus, 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
4 references- Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 58
- Redlichid Fauna from the Cambrian of Kashmir1
- Cymbric Vale fauna of New South Wales and Early Cambrian biostratigraphy1
- Notes on some Lower Cambrian fossils from French West Africa1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Neobolus 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 Neobolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neobolus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBotsfordiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1885