Sabellidites

Sabellidites is a genus of annelid from the Late Ediacaran and Early Cambrian periods. It is among the oldest annelid body fossils.

Sabellidites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SabelliditidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 529 Mya to 521 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 515.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–538 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences534–534 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences530–530 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529 Mya521 Mya539.3 Mya514.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Sabellidites 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

16 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

11 formations

Stáhpogieddi — 70.58°N, 28.08°EBreivik — 70.90°N, 28.67°EBreivik — 70.58°N, 28.18°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°ELontova — 59.43°N, 24.76°ECampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EChapel Island — 47.00°N, 56.00°WLontova — 55.53°N, 28.78°ELomonosov — 59.73°N, 29.16°ESiverskaya — 59.49°N, 30.11°ELezhskaya — 58.62°N, 40.26°E

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

Sabellidites and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sabellidites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sabellidites, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content2

Picture of Sabellidites

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSabelliditidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yanichevsky 1926