Priapulomorpha

Priapulomorpha

Ralf Janssen, Sofia A Wennberg and Graham E Budd · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PriapulidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Priapulida

Time the record covers

At least 6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 514.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCambrian515–514 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506.5 Mya500.5 Mya515 Mya496.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Priapulomorpha 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

3 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

3 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WPika — 53.20°N, 119.15°WBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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

Priapulomorpha and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Priapulomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

195 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Priapulomorpha, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Priapulomorpha

Credit
Ralf Janssen, Sofia A Wennberg and Graham E Budd
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Priapulomorpha 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 itPriapulida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Slavini-Plawen 1974)