Obtusoconus brevis
No picture of Obtusoconus brevis 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 Obtusoconus brevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ObtusoconusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 529 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Obtusoconus brevis 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 Obtusoconus brevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Obtusoconus brevis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Obtusoconus brevis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Allonnia tripodophora3 sites
- Australohalkieria parva3 sites
- Chancelloria3 sites
- Chancelloria racemifundis3 sites
- Conotheca australiensis3 sites
- Cupitheca3 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni3 sites
- Sinosachites3 sites
- Watsonella crosbyi3 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi2 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum2 sites
- Microcornus2 sites
- Microcornus petilus2 sites
- Parkula bounites2 sites
- <Smooth cap>1 site
- <Undetermined hiolith's>1 site
- Alataucyathus jaroschevitschi1 site
- Archiasterella pentactina1 site
- Bemella communis1 site
- Camenella1 site
- Camenella parilobata1 site
- Capitoconus nana1 site
- Chancelloria symmetrica1 site
- Chancelloriidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Obtusoconus brevis, 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
2 references- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia4
- Exceptionally preserved early Cambrian bilaterian developmental stages from Mongolia1
Each 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 Obtusoconus brevis 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 Obtusoconus brevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Obtusoconus brevis 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.
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What may have been alongside itObtusoconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Esakova and Zhegallo 1996