Bolliidae

Laterophores Schallreuter, 1968, a relative of Bolliidae — not Bolliidae itself

Not Bolliidae. This is Laterophores Schallreuter, 1968, a relative — both are Bolliidae.

via GBIF · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BinodicopinaPBDB
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 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 361 occurrencesOrdovician — about 195 of 361 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 16 of 361 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 145 of 361 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 361 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 361 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 361 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–475 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences475–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–459 Mya — about 10 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 108 occurrences451–443 Mya — about 75 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 6 occurrences435–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–419 Mya — about 9 occurrences419–411 Mya — about 10 occurrences411–403 Mya — about 3 occurrences403–395 Mya — about 4 occurrences395–387 Mya — about 57 occurrences387–379 Mya — about 69 occurrences322–314 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences314–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences461 Mya259.857 Mya492 Mya249 Mya

361 occurrences of Bolliidae 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

361 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

86 formations

Silica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WDecorah Shale — 44.00°N, 92.00°WDecorah Shale — 46.00°N, 94.00°WIon — 42.00°N, 94.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 94.00°WOnondaga — 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°WMoscow — 42.72°N, 78.97°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 78.85°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.45°WMoscow — 43.00°N, 78.30°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.03°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.88°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.77°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDelaware — 39.97°N, 83.00°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 61.52°N, 124.87°WWhittaker — 62.47°N, 124.85°WWhittaker — 63.28°N, 125.35°WWhittaker — 61.48°N, 125.05°WWhittaker — 62.46°N, 124.88°WArkona Shale — 43.09°N, 81.82°WMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.56°EMangazea — 62.14°N, 91.49°EMangazea — 62.15°N, 91.43°EMangazea — 62.30°N, 92.12°EGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 94.00°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.43°N, 97.19°WKope — 39.11°N, 84.49°WColumbus — 39.97°N, 83.00°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WDubuque — 46.00°N, 94.00°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 94.00°WMaquoketa — 46.00°N, 94.00°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 94.00°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 94.00°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.57°N, 78.84°WWills Creek Limestone — 39.44°N, 78.97°WBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBostów — 50.90°N, 21.08°EBostów — 50.47°N, 21.08°E

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The named rock units Bolliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bolliidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bolliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,037 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 161 sites for Bolliidae, 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

72 references

Each of the 361 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. 60 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 Laterophores Schallreuter, 1968

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Bolliidae 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 itBinodicopina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucek 1936