Paraleptomitella globula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParaleptomitellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Paraleptomitella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Paraleptomitella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Paraleptomitella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Paraleptomitella globula 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
7 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 Paraleptomitella globula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paraleptomitella globula and its relatives
CambrianWhere Paraleptomitella globula and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Misszhouia longicaudata4 sites
- Naraoia spinosa4 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma4 sites
- Branchiocaris yunnanensis3 sites
- Choiaella radiata3 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta3 sites
- Isoxys auritus3 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa3 sites
- Retifacies abnormalis3 sites
- Canadaspis laevigata2 sites
- Chuandianella ovata2 sites
- Diandongia pista2 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis2 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata2 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa2 sites
- Houcaris saron2 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus2 sites
- Kuamaia lata2 sites
- Leptomitella confusa2 sites
- Leptomitella conica2 sites
- Leptomitus teretiusculus2 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis2 sites
- Malongella bituberculata2 sites
- Maotianshania cylindrica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paraleptomitella globula, 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- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China2
- Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities1
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
- Lower Cambrian pediculate lingulids from Yunnan, China1
- Lower Cambrian leptomitids (Demospongea), Chengjiang, Yunnan1
Each of the 7 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 Paraleptomitella globula 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 Paraleptomitella globula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paraleptomitella globula 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 itParaleptomitella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen et al. 1989