Batocara

Batocara is a genus of phacopid trilobites in the family Encrinuridae. The type species, B. bowningi, was described originally as Encrinurus bowningi by Foerste in 1888. In 1980, D.L. Strusz erected Batocara for 'Encrinurus' bowningi. Batocara also contains the species B. borenorense, Batocara tuberosus and B. fritillum.

No picture of Batocara was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Batocara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EncrinuridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesSilurian439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya425 Mya439.1 Mya422.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Batocara on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

18 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

9 formations

Black Bog — 35.00°S, 149.00°ECanberra — 35.28°S, 149.13°ECanberra — 35.33°S, 149.17°EWalker Volcanics — 35.00°S, 149.00°EYarralumla — 35.28°S, 149.13°ESilverdale — 34.83°S, 148.92°EWillow Glen — 32.80°S, 149.82°EYass — 35.00°S, 149.00°EPoley Cow — 19.00°S, 145.00°EBoree Creek — 33.25°S, 148.97°E

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

Batocara and its relatives

Silurian

Where Batocara and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Batocara, 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

3 references

Each of the 18 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

Media content0

No picture of Batocara was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Batocara, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEncrinuridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Strusz 1980