Torellella laevigata

No picture of Torellella laevigata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torellella laevigata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TorellellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Torellellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Torellellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Torellellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 8.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 43 of 43 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 1 occurrence525–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 2 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 3 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 2 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 2 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 2 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521 Mya512.1 Mya539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

43 occurrences of Torellella laevigata 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

43 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

12 formations

Weymouth — 42.03°N, 71.38°WWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WFosters Point — 46.00°N, 60.00°WFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°ECuslett — 46.00°N, 60.00°WCuslett — 45.77°N, 60.29°WWades Lane — 45.08°N, 66.75°WBrigus — 45.77°N, 60.29°WMickwitzia Sandstone — 58.60°N, 13.35°EMickwitzia Sandstone — 58.62°N, 13.43°ERingstrand — 60.90°N, 10.73°EBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WArbuckle Brook — 45.62°N, 61.97°WBråstad Shale — 60.73°N, 10.34°E

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

Torellella laevigata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Torellella laevigata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Torellella laevigata, 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

12 references

Each of the 43 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

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No picture of Torellella laevigata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Torellella laevigata firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnarsson 1871)