Boardmanella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnisotrypidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
5 occurrences of Boardmanella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Boardmanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Boardmanella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Boardmanella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Anomalotoechus1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Atactotoechus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Eridotrypella1 site
- Fenestella1 site
- Fistuliporella1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Hemitrypa1 site
- Intrapora1 site
- Leioclema1 site
- Leptotrypa1 site
- Leptotrypella1 site
- Serenella dubia n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
- Tabulata1 site
- Vidronovella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Boardmanella, 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
4 references- Trepostome bryozoans from the Lower - Middle Devonian of NW Spain2
- Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographic relationships of Lower Devonian bryozoans from the Guadámez and Peñón Cortado Sections of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)1
- Devonian bryozoans from Argentina: new cosmopolitan components of Southwestern Gondwanan basins1
- Bryozoan Fauna from the Lower Devonian (Middle Lochkovian) of Sierra De Guadarrama, Spain1
Each of the 5 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 Boardmanella
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Boardmanella 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 itAnisotrypidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorjunova and Weis 2003