Stenotheca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StenothecidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenothecidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 9.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya.
42 occurrences of Stenotheca 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
42 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
21 formations
- Parara Limestone Formation7
- Xinji Formation5
- Parara Formation5
- Mernmerna Formation4
- Mernmerna Formation Formation3
- Coonigan Formation2
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The named rock units Stenotheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stenotheca and its relatives
CambrianWhere Stenotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
330 taxa- Pojetaia runnegari24 sites
- Davidonia rostrata19 sites
- Chancelloria18 sites
- Archiasterella16 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata16 sites
- Anabarella australis12 sites
- Pelagiella madianensis12 sites
- Sinosachites11 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi10 sites
- Australohalkieria parva9 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum9 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata9 sites
- Microcornus petilus9 sites
- Triplicatella disdoma9 sites
- Allonnia tripodophora8 sites
- Anabarites sexalox8 sites
- Apistoconcha siphonalis8 sites
- Cupitheca8 sites
- Eremactis mawsoni8 sites
- Hyolithes conularioides8 sites
- Microcornus eximius8 sites
- Pelagiella adunca8 sites
- Anhuiconus microtuberus7 sites
- Archiasterella pentactina7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Stenotheca, 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
21 references- The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia11
- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia6
- Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone3
- Helcionelloid molluscs from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of southern Sweden2
- Skeletal fossils and microfacies analysis of the lowermost Cambrian in the southwestern margin of the North China Platform2
- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia2
- Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution2
- An outer shelf shelly fauna from Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) of North Greenland (Laurentia)1
- Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica1
- The shelly fauna and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian (provisional series 2, stage 4) Evjevik Member, Ringstrand Formation in the Mjøsa area, Norway1
- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland1
- Discovery of the molluscan fauna from the Lower Cambrian Xinji Formation of Zhuyang, Lingbao of Henan1
Each of the 42 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. 9 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
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No picture of Stenotheca 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 Stenotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stenotheca 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStenothecidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hicks 1872