Bicuspina

No picture of Bicuspina 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 Bicuspina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriplesiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 62 of 63 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 63 occurrencesSilurian464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 17 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 14 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya449.5 Mya463.9 Mya432.3 Mya

63 occurrences of Bicuspina 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

63 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

25 formations

White Head — 48.83°N, 64.48°WWhite Head — 48.52°N, 64.22°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSpy Wood Grit — 52.67°N, 2.00°WWhittery Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WLas Plantas — 30.00°S, 69.00°WLas Plantas — 29.75°S, 68.65°WAllt Ddu — 52.90°N, 3.58°WRorrington Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WAnderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°EAnderken — 45.47°N, 72.03°EPen-y-garnedd — 53.00°N, 3.00°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFerradosa — 40.00°N, 8.00°WFerradosa — 40.31°N, 8.33°WHagley Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WCampile — 53.44°N, 7.23°WCampile — 53.45°N, 7.17°WPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt-Ddu Mudstones — 53.00°N, 4.00°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°ECaparo — 8.00°N, 71.00°WTaoqipo — 35.00°N, 109.00°ERosan — 48.00°N, 4.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WAldress Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°W

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The named rock units Bicuspina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bicuspina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bicuspina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Bicuspina, 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

22 references

Each of the 63 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Bicuspina 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 Bicuspina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bicuspina 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 itTriplesiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1950