Bellornatia
No picture of Bellornatia 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 Bellornatia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetradellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Bellornatia 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
11 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
6 formations
- Decorah Shale Formation4
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group2
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Spechts Ferry Formation · Galena Group1
- Guttenberg Formation · Galena Group1
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The named rock units Bellornatia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bellornatia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bellornatia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Bollia11 sites
- Dicranella11 sites
- Euprimitia11 sites
- Eurychilina11 sites
- Thomasatia11 sites
- Winchellatia11 sites
- Bromidella10 sites
- Ceratopsis10 sites
- Hallatia10 sites
- Krausella10 sites
- Maratia10 sites
- Primitiella10 sites
- Primitiella constricta10 sites
- Tetradella10 sites
- Aparchites8 sites
- Byrsolopsina8 sites
- Bythocypris8 sites
- Cryptophyllus8 sites
- Hesperidella8 sites
- Laccoprimitia8 sites
- Leperditella8 sites
- Parabolbina8 sites
- Paraschmidtella8 sites
- Pedomphalella8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bellornatia, 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
2 references- Middle and Upper Ordovician Ostracoda of Minnesota and Iowa8
- Ostracoda of the superfamilies Drepanellacea, Hollinacea, Leperditellacea, and Healdiacea from the Decorah Shale of Minnesota3
Each of the 11 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 Bellornatia 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 Bellornatia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
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What may have been alongside itTetradellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.