Ovalitheca

No picture of Ovalitheca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovalitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithomorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesCambrian539–539 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences529–529 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences527–527 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences526–526 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences539.3 Mya520.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Ovalitheca 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

13 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

8 formations

Pestrotsvet — 57.25°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°ETal — 30.35°N, 78.17°EYurtus — 40.88°N, 79.47°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°E

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

Ovalitheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ovalitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Ovalitheca, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 content0

No picture of Ovalitheca was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ovalitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHyolithomorpha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.