Bicornella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AechminellidaePBDB
- 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 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bicornella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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.
Bicornella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Bicornella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- ? Bairdocypris transversus1 site
- Aechmina1 site
- Aechminaria1 site
- Anastrophia grossa1 site
- Anomalocystitidae1 site
- Atrypa oklahomensis1 site
- Atrypina hami1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camarotoechia haraganensis1 site
- Ceratonurus1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Chlidochirus sp.1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Coelospira virginia1 site
- Condracypris1 site
- Cordania falcata1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Dechenellinae1 site
- Dicoelosia varica1 site
- Dicranurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bicornella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Bicornella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Bicornella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAechminellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Cuskley 1934