Birksfeldia circumplicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BirksfeldiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At least 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Birksfeldia circumplicata 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
4 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
4 formations
- Loka Formation1
- Jonstorp Formation1
- Domusnovas Formation1
- Portrane Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group1
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The named rock units Birksfeldia circumplicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Birksfeldia circumplicata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Birksfeldia circumplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Amorphognathus ordovicicus4 sites
- Dapsilodus mutatus4 sites
- Drepanoistodus suberectus3 sites
- Panderodus3 sites
- Scabbardella altipes3 sites
- Amorphognathus duftonus2 sites
- Belodina confluens2 sites
- Cornuodus2 sites
- Geniculate element2 sites
- Icriodella2 sites
- Ozarkodina2 sites
- Panderodus gracilis2 sites
- Protopanderodus2 sites
- Acanthambonia portranensis1 site
- Acanthocrania1 site
- Allumettoceras1 site
- Amorphognathus1 site
- Amorphognathus superbus1 site
- Amorphognathus ventilatus1 site
- Ansella pseudorobusta1 site
- Aphanomena schmalenseei1 site
- Aphelognathus1 site
- Arthrorhachis tarda1 site
- Bancroftina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Birksfeldia circumplicata, 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
3 references- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary successions in Östergötland and Västergötland, S. Sweden2
- Katian conodonts from the Portrane Limestone: the first Ordovician conodont fauna described from Ireland1
- Outline of the post-Sardic Ordovician sequence in south-westem Sardinia1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Birksfeldia circumplicata 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 Birksfeldia circumplicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Birksfeldia circumplicata 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 itBirksfeldia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orchard 1980