Biorbis
No picture of Biorbis 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 Biorbis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 339.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Biorbis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Lucan Formation · Fingal Group3
- Tober Colleen Formation · Fingal Group1
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The named rock units Biorbis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Biorbis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Biorbis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Tetrataxis4 sites
- Valvulinella4 sites
- Archaediscus3 sites
- Brunsia3 sites
- Eoparastaffella simplex3 sites
- Eotextularia3 sites
- Glomodiscus3 sites
- Koninckopora3 sites
- Pseudoammodiscus3 sites
- Uralodiscus3 sites
- Endothyranopsis2 sites
- Koninckopora inflata2 sites
- Eostaffella1 site
- Globospiroplectammina sp.1 site
- Koskinotextularia1 site
- Palaeospiroplectammina1 site
- Planoarchaediscus1 site
- Pseudolituotuba1 site
- Pseudolituotubella1 site
- Viseidiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Biorbis, 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 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Biorbis 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 Biorbis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Biorbis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itForaminifera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.