Reticulosa

No picture of Reticulosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Reticulosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphidiscophoraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 301 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 200 of 407 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 49 of 407 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 29 of 407 occurrencesDevonian — about 38 of 407 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 44 of 407 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 44 of 407 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 407 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 407 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 407 occurrences643–629 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences629–615 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615–601 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences601–587 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences587–572 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences572–558 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences558–544 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences544–530 Mya — about 4 occurrences530–516 Mya — about 64 occurrences516–502 Mya — about 81 occurrences502–488 Mya — about 50 occurrences488–474 Mya — about 11 occurrences474–459 Mya — about 11 occurrences459–445 Mya — about 27 occurrences445–431 Mya — about 10 occurrences431–417 Mya — about 22 occurrences417–403 Mya — about 7 occurrences403–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–375 Mya — about 17 occurrences375–360 Mya — about 8 occurrences360–346 Mya — about 7 occurrences346–332 Mya — about 24 occurrences332–318 Mya — about 8 occurrences318–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–290 Mya — about 11 occurrences290–276 Mya — about 21 occurrences276–262 Mya — about 11 occurrences262–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya237 Mya643 Mya219 Mya

407 occurrences of Reticulosa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

407 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

107 formations

Marjum — 39.22°N, 113.33°WMarjum — 39.23°N, 112.33°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.28°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°WLlanfawr Mudstone — 52.23°N, 3.37°WYu'anshan — 25.33°N, 103.50°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EYu'anshan — 24.87°N, 102.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.25°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.92°N, 125.77°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.40°EBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.94°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 111.59°WWheeler Shale — 39.12°N, 113.12°WWheeler Shale — 39.20°N, 113.30°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 113.28°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WRed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.05°N, 86.42°WRoberts Mountains — 41.43°N, 114.94°WRoberts Mountains — 41.28°N, 116.07°WYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 25.72°N, 103.99°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.34°N, 103.15°WNiutitang — 27.60°N, 106.71°ENiutitang — 29.37°N, 110.53°ENiutitang — 27.55°N, 106.23°ENiutitang — 27.67°N, 106.68°EHetang — 29.92°N, 118.08°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WEl Mogallón — 28.91°N, 109.28°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WMarjum Limestone — 39.12°N, 113.12°WMarjum Limestone — 39.25°N, 113.36°WBangor Limestone — 34.54°N, 88.00°WQiongzhusi — 24.68°N, 102.98°EQiongzhusi — 24.65°N, 102.97°EBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.05°WHuangboling — 30.10°N, 116.93°EHuangboling — 30.08°N, 117.00°EKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°W

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The named rock units Reticulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 83 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reticulosa and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Reticulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

2,403 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 193 sites for Reticulosa, 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

128 references

Each of the 407 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. 116 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 Reticulosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Reticulosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Reticulosa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reid 1958