Vanuxemella
No picture of Vanuxemella 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 Vanuxemella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZacanthoididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 8.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 486.85 Mya.
7 occurrences of Vanuxemella 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
7 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
6 formations
- Cathedral Formation2
- Cathedral Dolomite Formation1
- Langston Formation1
- Lead Bell Shale Formation1
- Rennie Shale Formation1
- Gordon Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Vanuxemella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vanuxemella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Vanuxemella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Albertella4 sites
- Acrothele3 sites
- Albertella nitida2 sites
- Chancia2 sites
- Elrathia2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Kochina americana2 sites
- Mexicella stator2 sites
- Orthotheca2 sites
- Poliella2 sites
- Wimanella2 sites
- Acrothele affinis1 site
- Acrotreta definita1 site
- Acrotreta levata1 site
- Agnostus1 site
- Albertella sampsoni1 site
- Alokistocare1 site
- Alokistocare septum1 site
- Alokistocare spencense1 site
- Alokistocarella1 site
- Alokistocarella spencei1 site
- Amecephalus1 site
- Amecephalus idahoense1 site
- Amecephalus laticaudum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Vanuxemella, 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
6 references- Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas of the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy in northern Utah and southeastern Idaho1
- Lower and Middle Cambrian stratigraphy of southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia1
- The Spence Shale and its fauna1
- Middle Cambrian fossils from Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho1
- Cambrian geology and paleontology III. No. 5. Cambrian trilobites1
Each of the 7 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 Vanuxemella 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 Vanuxemella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vanuxemella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itZacanthoididae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1916