Obolella vermilionensis
No picture of Obolella vermilionensis 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 Obolella vermilionensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ObolellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Obolellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Obolellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Obolellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Obolellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 520 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Obolella vermilionensis 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
5 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 Obolella vermilionensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Obolella vermilionensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Obolella vermilionensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Nevadia gracile3 sites
- Obolella excelsis3 sites
- Mesonacis fremonti2 sites
- Archaeocyathus1 site
- Billingsella bivia1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Ethmophyllum gracile1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Kutorgina1 site
- Lingulella (Lingulepis) rowei1 site
- Mickwitzia occidens1 site
- Wimanella inyoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Obolella vermilionensis, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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 Obolella vermilionensis 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 Obolella vermilionensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obolella vermilionensis 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 itObolella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1912