Bollia

Bollia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolliidaePBDB
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 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 87 occurrencesOrdovician — about 41 of 87 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 87 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 38 of 87 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 6 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 18 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 6 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 1 occurrence416–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences406–402 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 10 occurrences391–387 Mya — about 14 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 7 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 3 occurrences459.7 Mya387.95 Mya489 Mya380 Mya

87 occurrences of Bollia 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

87 occurrences

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

43 formations

Onondaga — 40.42°N, 77.19°WOnondaga — 41.10°N, 77.50°WOnondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 40.54°N, 77.70°WOnondaga — 39.73°N, 78.08°WOnondaga — 39.26°N, 78.53°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDelaware — 39.97°N, 83.00°WColumbus — 39.97°N, 83.00°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 94.00°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WPlum Brook Shale — 41.00°N, 83.00°WKope — 39.11°N, 84.49°WLangøyene — 59.90°N, 10.73°EBønsnes — 66.77°N, 13.47°EBønsnes — 60.05°N, 10.18°ERed Mountain — 33.48°N, 86.79°WFonte da Horta — 40.00°N, 8.00°WJeffersonville — 39.97°N, 83.00°WHuntersville — 36.75°N, 82.25°WMiaopo — 32.00°N, 118.00°ELexington Ls — 37.65°N, 84.77°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Bollia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bollia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bollia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

682 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Bollia, 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

28 references

Each of the 87 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Bollia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Bollia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones and Holl 1886