Wushichites minutus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WushichitesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Cambroclavida
- Environment
- outer shelf,eutrophic,marinePBDB, for Cambroclavida
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 530.7 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Wushichites minutus 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Wushichites minutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Wushichites minutus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Wushichites minutus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Cambroclavus bicornis3 sites
- Halkieria mira3 sites
- Zhijinites claviformis3 sites
- Parazhijinites guizhouensis2 sites
- Aksuglobulus acinosus1 site
- Aldanella1 site
- Allonia tripodophora1 site
- Anabarites1 site
- Archaeooides granulatus1 site
- Archiasterella pentactina1 site
- Archicladium tridactyles1 site
- Cupitheca1 site
- Lophotheca costellata1 site
- Ninella tarimensis1 site
- Ovalitheca1 site
- Paragloborilus spinatus1 site
- Polycladium yurtusensis1 site
- Porcaconus xinjiangensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Wushichites minutus, 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
2 references- Lower Cambrian Cambroclaves (Incertae sedis) from Xinjiang, China, with comments on the morphological variability of sclerites2
- An Early Cambrian small shelly fauna from Aksu-Wushi region, Xinjiang2
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Wushichites minutus 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 Wushichites minutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Wushichites minutus 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.
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What may have been alongside itWushichites through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qian and Xiao 1984