Pelagiella

No picture of Pelagiella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pelagiella itself, so it was not used. 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 Pelagiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelagiellidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 329 of 329 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 329 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 2 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 2 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 2 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 2 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 2 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 3 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 3 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 5 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 5 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 21 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 37 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 37 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 52 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 52 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 34 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 19 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 11 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 10 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 9 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 6 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 3 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 1 occurrence491–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–488 Mya — about 1 occurrence488–486 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525.5 Mya497 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

329 occurrences of Pelagiella 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

329 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

69 formations

Ajax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.81°S, 140.69°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.12°S, 137.16°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.85°S, 140.01°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.85°S, 140.63°EBystraya — 52.00°N, 119.00°EMernmerna Formation — 30.72°S, 139.18°EMernmerna Formation — 31.85°S, 140.63°EMernmerna Formation — 31.00°S, 139.26°EMernmerna Formation — 31.01°S, 139.24°EXinji — 33.27°N, 112.98°EXinji — 34.53°N, 110.87°EXinji — 33.38°N, 113.43°EXinji — 34.90°N, 106.85°EBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WBastion — 73.52°N, 24.68°WBastion — 72.85°N, 25.03°WMernmerna — 30.81°S, 140.69°EMernmerna — 31.55°S, 140.79°EMernmerna — 31.19°S, 138.87°EMernmerna — 30.79°S, 139.14°EWirrapowie Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EWirrapowie Limestone — 30.79°S, 139.14°EJbel Wawrmast — 30.67°N, 8.17°EJbel Wawrmast — 30.67°N, 8.17°WJbel Wawrmast — 32.00°N, 6.00°WJbel Wawrmast — 30.58°N, 7.20°WJbel Wawrmast — 31.37°N, 5.02°WBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WBrowns Pond — 43.60°N, 73.32°WShackleton Limestone — 82.22°S, 160.31°EGowers — 19.56°S, 138.90°EGowers — 19.54°S, 138.90°EKuonamka — 70.74°N, 112.98°EKuonamka — 70.22°N, 113.70°EKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 39.92°N, 76.85°WKinzers — 40.08°N, 76.35°WForteau — 49.60°N, 57.83°WForteau — 49.52°N, 57.71°WRamsay — 34.91°S, 137.80°ERamsay — 34.78°S, 137.75°EPedroche — 37.88°N, 4.77°WWeymouth — 42.43°N, 70.92°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°ELower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.58°N, 2.67°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WKulpara — 34.92°S, 137.80°EKulpara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EKulpara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EEmyaksin — 70.22°N, 113.70°E

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The named rock units Pelagiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pelagiella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pelagiella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

800 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Pelagiella, and this reads 240 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

74 references

Each of the 329 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. 62 further references are not listed. 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 Pelagiella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pelagiella itself, so it was not used.

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 Pelagiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pelagiella 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 itPelagiellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1895