Bifaxaria diaphyota
No picture of Bifaxaria diaphyota was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Bifaxaria diaphyota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BifaxariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bifaxaria diaphyota on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Bifaxaria diaphyota and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bifaxaria diaphyota and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Bifaxaria bryani2 sites
- Reteporellina2 sites
- Spiroporina kondoi2 sites
- Tessaradoma bifax2 sites
- Tetraplaria simata2 sites
- Beania diademata1 site
- Canda fossilis1 site
- Cellaria cucullata1 site
- Chiastosella1 site
- Figularia1 site
- Menipea innocua1 site
- Patsyella1 site
- Schizoporella macgillivrayi1 site
- Spiroporina deliqua1 site
- Tetraplaria turgida1 site
- Triporula biarmata1 site
- Tubitrabecularia clypeata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bifaxaria diaphyota, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bifaxaria diaphyota was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bifaxaria diaphyota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bifaxaria diaphyota 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 itBifaxaria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cheetham 1972