Billingsella

Billingsella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
BillingsellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 108 of 109 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 109 occurrencesOrdovician516–515 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–498 Mya — about 1 occurrence498–496 Mya — about 10 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 20 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 14 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 15 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 14 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 15 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 13 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya477.1 Mya516.2 Mya470.4 Mya

109 occurrences of Billingsella 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

109 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

31 formations

Guole — 23.34°N, 106.13°EFort Sill Limestone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WSnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WSnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°WSnowy Range — 46.87°N, 111.00°WSnowy Range — 45.92°N, 111.25°WGorbiyachin — 68.00°N, 88.82°EKulyumbe — 68.00°N, 88.82°EOpen Door Limestone — 43.29°N, 109.83°WMila — 35.81°N, 53.99°EMila — 54.75°N, 36.35°EChatsworth — 22.01°S, 140.29°EChatsworth — 21.94°S, 140.27°EOpen Door — 43.28°N, 109.83°WValtorres — 41.30°N, 1.76°WKarpinsk — 72.99°N, 53.31°EHoney Creek Limestone — 34.82°N, 98.41°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.16°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.06°WPilgrim — 46.01°N, 112.54°WFranconia — 44.52°N, 89.57°WSt. Charles — 41.63°N, 111.67°WNotch Peak — 39.22°N, 113.40°WSinging Creek — 43.00°S, 147.00°EDuNoir Limestone — 43.29°N, 109.83°WDeadwood — 44.32°N, 103.63°WKurchavinskaya — 79.18°N, 97.30°ESpurs — 71.50°S, 165.27°EBestogai — 43.62°N, 69.94°EPele La Quartzite — 27.40°N, 90.29°E

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The named rock units Billingsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Billingsella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Billingsella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Billingsella, 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

27 references

Each of the 109 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Billingsella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
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 itBillingsellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1892