Bathyurellus platypus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BathyurellusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 483.4 Mya and 471.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Bathyurellus platypus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Catoche Formation · St. George Group7
- Fort Cassin Formation1
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The named rock units Bathyurellus platypus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bathyurellus platypus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bathyurellus platypus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Bathyurellus abruptus7 sites
- Ischyrotoma anataphra7 sites
- Isoteloides canalis7 sites
- Jeffersonia timon7 sites
- Petigurus nero7 sites
- Benthamaspis gibberula6 sites
- Bolbocephalus convexus6 sites
- Jeffersonia jenni6 sites
- Punka flabelliformis6 sites
- Strotactinus insularis6 sites
- Isoteloides peri5 sites
- Benthamaspis conica4 sites
- Catochia glabra4 sites
- Catochia ornata4 sites
- Strigigenalis caudata4 sites
- Uromystrum4 sites
- Jeffersonia3 sites
- Petigurus3 sites
- Uromystrum marginiatus3 sites
- Euchasma blumenbachi2 sites
- Ischyrotoma2 sites
- Punka2 sites
- Uromystrum affine2 sites
- Acidiphorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bathyurellus platypus, 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- The rostroconch mollusc Euchasma Billings, 1865 from the Lower Ordovician Catoche Formation, western Newfoundland2
- Trilobite and Conodont Biostratigraphy of the St. George Group, Eddies Cove west area, Western Newfoundland2
- Trilobites of the Lower Ordovician (Ibexian) For Cassin Formation, Champlain Valley Region, New York State and Vermont1
- Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland1
- Cambrian-Ordovician biostratigraphic investigations, Great Northern Peninsula, western Newfoundland1
- Early Ordovician trilobites from the Catoche Formation (St. George Group), western Newfoundland1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Bathyurellus platypus 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 Bathyurellus platypus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bathyurellus platypus 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 itBathyurellus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey 1979