Sokolovitheca

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ExilithecidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthothecimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthothecimorpha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Orthothecimorpha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Orthothecimorpha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At most 23 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 516.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCambrian539–539 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–528 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539.3 Mya515.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Sokolovitheca 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

1 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

1 formation

Weymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°W

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

Sokolovitheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sokolovitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sokolovitheca, 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

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Sokolovitheca 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 itExilithecida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.