Bilobia virginiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BilobiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptestiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptestiidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Leptestiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bilobia virginiensis 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bilobia virginiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bilobia virginiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bilobia virginiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Bimuria parvula1 site
- Camerella varians1 site
- Dactylogonia1 site
- Dinorthis transversa1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Eoplectodonta1 site
- Glyptoglossella cavellosa1 site
- Glyptorthis equiconvexa1 site
- Hesperorthis tricenaria1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lingulasma1 site
- Macrocoelia ruedemanni1 site
- Mimella1 site
- Multicostella1 site
- Oepikina bellula1 site
- Opikina1 site
- Orthambonites1 site
- Oxoplecia1 site
- Parastrophina1 site
- Paucicrura1 site
- Paurorthis1 site
- Plectocamara1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bilobia virginiensis, 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
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No picture of Bilobia virginiensis 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 Bilobia virginiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bilobia virginiensis 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 itBilobia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956