Bairdia arcuata

Bairdia arcuata

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94.4 Mya85.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Bairdia arcuata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

5 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

5 formations

Bila Hora — 50.16°N, 14.87°ETeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°EBrežno — 50.04°N, 15.69°EKorycany — 50.49°N, 13.75°EBřezno — 50.40°N, 13.42°E

Loading coastlines…

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

Bairdia arcuata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bairdia arcuata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bairdia arcuata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Bairdia arcuata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBairdia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch and Kafka 1887