Bija

A picture published with the record for Bija. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChabakoviaceaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya515.3 Mya526 Mya507.7 Mya

9 occurrences of Bija on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

9 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

3 formations

Scott Canyon — 40.60°N, 117.10°WForteau — 51.56°N, 56.75°WHartshill — 52.57°N, 1.55°W

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

Bija and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Bija and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bija, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Bija

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itChabakoviacea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vologdin 1932