Randomia aurorae
No picture of Randomia aurorae 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 Randomia aurorae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RandomiaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Randomia aurorae 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
2 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
1 formation
- Fosters Point Formation · Bonavista Group2
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The named rock units Randomia aurorae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Randomia aurorae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Randomia aurorae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Aldanella attleborensis1 site
- Allatheca degeeri1 site
- Bemella transversa1 site
- Camenella baltica1 site
- Camya thecoides1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Coleoloides typicalis1 site
- Eccentrotheca kanesia1 site
- Fordilla troyensis1 site
- Gracilitheca bayonet1 site
- Halkieria1 site
- Hertzina1 site
- Hyolithellus tenuis1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Ilsanella paupera1 site
- Ischyrinia1 site
- Kutorgina granulata n. sp.1 site
- Ladatheca cylindrica1 site
- Micromitra1 site
- Nevadotheca excellens1 site
- Obolus1 site
- Orthotheca bayonet1 site
- Paterina1 site
- Rushtonites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Randomia aurorae, 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
2 references- Upper Precambrian through Lower Cambrian of Cape Breton Island: faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision1
- The Etcheminian fauna of Smith Sound, Newfoundland1
Each of the 2 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 Randomia aurorae 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 Randomia aurorae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Randomia aurorae 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 itRandomia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1899