Bolbopisthia
No picture of Bolbopisthia 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 Bolbopisthia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LomatopisthiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 451 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
20 occurrences of Bolbopisthia 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
20 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
5 formations
- Esbataottine Formation7
- Whittaker Formation6
- Sunblood, Esbataottine Formation2
- Esbataottine & Sunblood Formation1
- Lexington Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Bolbopisthia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bolbopisthia and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bolbopisthia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Krausella15 sites
- Schmidtella12 sites
- Aparchites10 sites
- Bairdiocypris9 sites
- Eurychilina9 sites
- Cybeloides cimelia8 sites
- Walencrinuroides rolfi7 sites
- Dolichoharpes reticulata6 sites
- Stictopora6 sites
- Tetradella6 sites
- Apianurus parabarbatus5 sites
- Bumastoides5 sites
- Calyptaulax5 sites
- Helopora5 sites
- Isotelus5 sites
- Leperditella5 sites
- Remopleurides pattersoni5 sites
- Sphaerexochus arenosus5 sites
- Acanthoparypha evitti4 sites
- Borealaspis biformis4 sites
- Bumastoides lenzi4 sites
- Calyptaulax callirachis4 sites
- Ceratocephala triacantheis4 sites
- Ceraurinella nahanniensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Bolbopisthia, 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
4 references- A trilobite zonation of Middle Ordovician rocks, southwestern District of Mackenzie9
- Middle Ordovician ostracoda from southwestern District of Mackenzie9
- Ordovician Ostracoda, southeastern District of Franklin1
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky1
Each of the 20 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 Bolbopisthia 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 Bolbopisthia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bolbopisthia 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 itLomatopisthiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.