Palmerara
No picture of Palmerara 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 Palmerara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychopariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
64 occurrences of Palmerara 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
64 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
6 formations
- Pioche Shale Formation49
- Carrara Formation8
- Mt. Whyte Formation3
- Monola Formation2
- Langston Formation1
- Mount Whyte Formation1
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The named rock units Palmerara has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palmerara and its relatives
CambrianWhere Palmerara and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Fieldaspis bilobata19 sites
- Poliella denticulata17 sites
- Nyella plana14 sites
- Kochiella brevaspis11 sites
- Poliella lomataspis11 sites
- Albertellina aspinosa10 sites
- Nyella rara9 sites
- Syspacephalus crassus9 sites
- Amecephalus arrojosensis8 sites
- Mexicella granulata8 sites
- Nyella immoderata8 sites
- Volocephalina variosa8 sites
- Hadrocephalites rhytidodes7 sites
- Panacus palmeri6 sites
- Poliella germana6 sites
- Poliella leipalox6 sites
- Ptarmiganoides6 sites
- Kootenia5 sites
- Ursinella major5 sites
- Albertella fritzi4 sites
- Alokistocare alta4 sites
- Delamarella brevispinaspis4 sites
- Fieldaspis4 sites
- Kochiella4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Palmerara, 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
9 references- Trilobites of the lower Middle Cambrian Poliella denticulata biozone (new) of southeastern Nevada24
- Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada17
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin8
- Lower and early Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Pioche Shale, East-Central Nevada, U.S.A.8
- Early and Mid Cambrian Trilobites from the Outer-shelf Deposits of Nevada and California, USA2
- Additional fossils from the Middle Cambrian Mt. Whyte Formation of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- The Burgess Shale and associated Cambrian formations west of the Fossil Gully Fault Zone on Mount Stephen, British Columbia1
- The Ptarmigania strata of the northwestern Wasatch Mountains1
- Cambrian geology and paleontology, 3, fauna of the Mount Whyte Formation1
Each of the 64 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 Palmerara 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 Palmerara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palmerara 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 itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Özdikmen 2009