Sinskolutella cuspidata

No picture of Sinskolutella cuspidata 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 Sinskolutella cuspidata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinskolutellaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Bradoriida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Bradoriida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bradoriida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bradoriida

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 525.5 Mya and 514.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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28 occurrences of Sinskolutella cuspidata 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

28 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

Wirrapowie Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EWilkawillina Limestone — 30.72°S, 139.20°EMernmerna — 31.02°S, 139.24°E

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

Sinskolutella cuspidata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sinskolutella cuspidata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sinskolutella cuspidata, 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

3 references

Each of the 28 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 Sinskolutella cuspidata 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 Sinskolutella cuspidata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sinskolutella cuspidata 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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What may have been alongside itSinskolutella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Betts et al. 2014