Batostoma fertile

Hibbard, R. R. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- BatostomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 458 Mya to 457.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Batostoma fertile 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
6 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Batostoma fertile 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.
Batostoma fertile and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Batostoma fertile and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
194 taxa- Amplexopora2 sites
- Constellaria2 sites
- Cyclonema varicosum2 sites
- Escharopora2 sites
- Hebertella frankfortensis2 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis2 sites
- Hebertella sinuata2 sites
- Heterotrypa frondosa2 sites
- Hindia sphaeroidalis2 sites
- Hirnantia2 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi2 sites
- Monotrypa novaki2 sites
- Orthorhynchula linneyi2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Prismostylus fibratum2 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata2 sites
- Stromatocerium2 sites
- ? Diplotrypa conica1 site
- ? Leptodesma improvisa1 site
- ? Paraschmidtella densipunctata densipunctata1 site
- ? Paraschmidtella densipunctata longior1 site
- ? Paraschmidtella obscura1 site
- ? Polyteichus pusillus1 site
- ? Ulrichia timida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Batostoma fertile, 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- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee2
- The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces2
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Batostoma fertile
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hibbard, R. R.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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 itBatostoma through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1886