Pinnocaris robusta

No picture of Pinnocaris robusta 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 Pinnocaris robusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PinnocarisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia

Time the record covers

At most 2.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 491 Mya and 488.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–490 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491.5 Mya487.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Pinnocaris robusta 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

4 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

1 formation

Pacoota — 23.75°S, 133.33°EPacoota — 23.62°S, 134.50°EPacoota — 23.65°S, 134.43°EPacoota — 23.79°S, 134.78°E

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

Pinnocaris robusta and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pinnocaris robusta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pinnocaris robusta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pinnocaris robusta 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 Pinnocaris robusta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pinnocaris robusta 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 itPinnocaris through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta et al. 1977