Truncatoconus yichangensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TruncatoconusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Truncatoconus yichangensis 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
3 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
3 formations
- Huangshandong Formation1
- Zhujianqing Formation · Meishucunian Group1
- Zhujiaqing Formation · Meishucunian Group1
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The named rock units Truncatoconus yichangensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Truncatoconus yichangensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Truncatoconus yichangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Securiconus simplex3 sites
- Annelitellus yangtzensis2 sites
- Archaeooides granulatus2 sites
- Carinopelta mirabilis2 sites
- Ocruranus finial2 sites
- Oelandiella korobkovi2 sites
- Securiconus emeiensis2 sites
- Aegides seperbes1 site
- Archaeotremaria polytremata1 site
- Asiapatella sinuata1 site
- Asiapatella undulata1 site
- Cambrospira sinensis1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Chancelloria symmetrica1 site
- Chancelloriella bella1 site
- Conotheca subcurvata1 site
- Cupittheca mira1 site
- Dorispira lauta1 site
- Drepanochites dilatatus1 site
- Granoconus trematus1 site
- Halkieria1 site
- Halkieria sacciformis1 site
- Halkieria sthenobasis1 site
- Halkieria wangi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Truncatoconus yichangensis, 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
2 references- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China2
- Earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from western Hubei with their biostratigraphical significance1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Truncatoconus yichangensis 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 Truncatoconus yichangensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Truncatoconus yichangensis 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 itTruncatoconus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yü 1979