Bonnia columbensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BonniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Dorypygidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Bonnia columbensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
- Illtyd Formation · Wernecke Group3
- Forteau Formation2
- Sekwi Formation1
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The named rock units Bonnia columbensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bonnia columbensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bonnia columbensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Antagmus ducketti2 sites
- Zacanthopsis expansa2 sites
- <dolichometopid>1 site
- <ptychoparioid>1 site
- Antagmus1 site
- Antagmus arenosus1 site
- Archaeocyatha1 site
- Archaeocyathus1 site
- Archaeosycon1 site
- Arithmocricus sp.1 site
- Bonnia parvula1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Echinodea indet.1 site
- Elliptocephala logani1 site
- Fungi1 site
- Leperditicopina1 site
- Metaldetes1 site
- Obolella1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Olenellus thompsoni1 site
- Paleophycus sp.1 site
- Piaziella pia1 site
- Planolites1 site
- Platyheminthes indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bonnia columbensis, 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- Lower Cambrian Trilobites from the Illtyd Formation, Wernecke Mountains, Yukon Territory3
- Cavity-dwelling organisms in Lower Cambrian patch reefs from southern Labrador2
- Lower Cambrian trilobites from the Sekwi Formation type section, northwestern Canada1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Bonnia columbensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bonnia columbensis 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 itBonnia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Resser 1936