Benignites primula
No picture of Benignites primula 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 Benignites primula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BenignitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 1.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461 Mya and 459.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Benignites primula 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
3 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
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The named rock units Benignites primula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Benignites primula and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Benignites primula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Selenopeltis macrophthalma3 sites
- Calix purkynei2 sites
- Dindymene plasi2 sites
- Dionide jubata2 sites
- Hustedograptus teretiusculus2 sites
- Svobodaina dalmanelloides2 sites
- ? Bergamia praecedens1 site
- ? Parapyxion transiens1 site
- "Orthoceras" arcitenens1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Anomalocystites incipiens1 site
- Archaeoconularia distincta1 site
- Archaeoconularia fecunda1 site
- Archaeoconularia insignis1 site
- Archaeoconularia primula1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Areia (Areia) fritschi1 site
- Bactrotheca novaki1 site
- Bactrotheca teres1 site
- Barrandicella ovata1 site
- Barrandicella tarda1 site
- Bohemilla klouceki1 site
- Bohemilla stupenda1 site
- Caryocaris wrighti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Benignites primula, 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- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Complementary description of the Middle Ordovician trilobite associations1
Each of the 3 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 Benignites primula 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 Benignites primula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Benignites primula was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBenignites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1879)