Ottoia prolifica

Ottoia prolifica

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
OttoiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ottoia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Ottoia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Ottoia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Priapulida

Time the record covers

At least 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 28 of 28 occurrencesCambrian510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–507 Mya — about 2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–499 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505.3 Mya500.5 Mya510.2 Mya496.5 Mya

28 occurrences of Ottoia prolifica 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

28 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

3 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WPika — 53.20°N, 119.15°W

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The named rock units Ottoia prolifica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ottoia prolifica and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ottoia prolifica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Ottoia prolifica, 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

6 references

Each of the 28 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 content1

Picture of Ottoia prolifica

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ottoia prolifica 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 itOttoia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1911