Pseudovalitheca crassa
No picture of Pseudovalitheca crassa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudovalitheca crassa firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 530.7 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pseudovalitheca crassa 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- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pseudovalitheca crassa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudovalitheca crassa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Pseudovalitheca crassa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aegitellus3 sites
- Cyrtochites pinnoides3 sites
- Ocruranus finial3 sites
- Ocruranus trulliformis3 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi3 sites
- Paracarinachites3 sites
- Ramenta superata3 sites
- Siphogonuchites triangularis3 sites
- Xianfengella prima3 sites
- Aetholicopalla adnata2 sites
- Drepanochites dilatatus2 sites
- Lopochites latazonalis2 sites
- Paracarinachites sinensis2 sites
- Phrygula nana2 sites
- Xiadongoconus luminosus2 sites
- Lomasulcachites macrus1 site
- Lopochites1 site
- Lopochites quadrogonus1 site
- Maikhanella latispina1 site
- Scoponodus renustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudovalitheca crassa, 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- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication3
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
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No picture of Pseudovalitheca crassa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudovalitheca crassa firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.