Bairdia indefinita
No picture of Bairdia indefinita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Bairdia indefinita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Bairdia indefinita on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Bairdia indefinita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bairdia indefinita and its relatives
PermianWhere Bairdia indefinita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Bairdia hassi5 sites
- Bairdia geisi4 sites
- Bairdiacypris4 sites
- Cyathus ulrichi4 sites
- Acratia3 sites
- Paraparchites3 sites
- Xixionopsis3 sites
- Acratia obesa2 sites
- Acratia permiana2 sites
- Bairdia crassa2 sites
- Basslerella acuta2 sites
- Basslerella obesa2 sites
- Kloedenellidae2 sites
- Microcheilinella2 sites
- Microcheilinella perexilis2 sites
- Microcheilinella postspinosa2 sites
- Paraparchites complanatus2 sites
- Acratia filippovskaensis1 site
- Actuaria suksuensis1 site
- Bairdia (Rectobairdia)1 site
- Bairdia verwiebei1 site
- Bairdiacypris deloi1 site
- Basslerella crassa1 site
- Buregia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bairdia indefinita, 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 referenceEach 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 content0
No picture of Bairdia indefinita was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bairdia indefinita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bairdia indefinita 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 itBairdia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gusseva 1972