Zhijinites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZhijinitidaePBDB
- 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 least 9.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 521 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 516 Mya.
51 occurrences of Zhijinites 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
51 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
14 formations
- Dengying Formation12
- Zhujiaqing Formation9
- Yurtus Formation7
- Kuanchuanpu Formation6
- Hetang Formation4
- Taozichong Formation2
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The named rock units Zhijinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Zhijinites and its relatives
CambrianWhere Zhijinites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Conotheca subcurvata10 sites
- Hyolithellus9 sites
- Paragloborilus subglobosus9 sites
- Watsonella crosbyi9 sites
- Halkieria sthenobasis8 sites
- Siphogonuchites triangularis8 sites
- Cupittheca mira7 sites
- Halkieria mira7 sites
- Kaiyangites novilis7 sites
- Archaeooides6 sites
- Olivooides6 sites
- Parazhijinites guizhouensis6 sites
- Protohertzina unguliformis6 sites
- Sachites6 sites
- Anabarites5 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus5 sites
- Cambroclavus bicornis5 sites
- Protohertzina anabarica5 sites
- Chancelloria4 sites
- Conotheca4 sites
- Emarginoconus mirus4 sites
- Lathamella symmetrica4 sites
- Latouchella4 sites
- Lopochites4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Zhijinites, 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
17 references- Small shelly fossils from the lowest Cambrian in Guizhou9
- Lower Cambrian Cambroclaves (Incertae sedis) from Xinjiang, China, with comments on the morphological variability of sclerites6
- The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems6
- Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China)5
- Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implication4
- Tannuolina and Micrina (Tannuolinidae) from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, south China, and their scleritome reconstruction4
- Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance3
- Brachiopods and associated skeletal taxa from the early Cambrian of southeastern Shaanxi, South China2
- Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their stratigraphic implications2
- The small shelly fossils from the Palaeocambrian Meishucunian stage in western Zhejiang2
- Late Sinian to Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Yangjiaping, Shimen, Hunan2
- Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China1
Each of the 51 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. 5 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 Zhijinites 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 Zhijinites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Zhijinites 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 itZhijinitidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Qian 1978