Bristolia insolens
No picture of Bristolia insolens was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Bristolia insolens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BristoliaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 515.3 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bristolia insolens 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bristolia insolens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bristolia insolens and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bristolia insolens and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Bristolia bristolensis3 sites
- Mesonacis fremonti3 sites
- Olenellus clarki3 sites
- Olenellus nevadensis3 sites
- Bristolia mohavensis2 sites
- Nevadotheca whitei2 sites
- Bristolia anteros1 site
- Bristolia harringtoni1 site
- Cambrorhytium fragilis1 site
- Lathamoserpens sigel1 site
- Mesonacis1 site
- Mickwitzia occidens1 site
- Nisusia fulleri1 site
- Olenellus1 site
- Olenellus gilberti1 site
- Onchocephalus1 site
- Paterina prospectensis1 site
- Peachella iddingsi1 site
- Wimanella highlandensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bristolia insolens, 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
3 references- Notes on the Cambrian rocks of the eastern Mohave Desert, California2
- Biostratigraphy of upper Dyeran strata of the Carrara Formation, Emigrant Pass, Nopah Range, California1
- The Lower Cambrian Olenellidae of the southern Marble Mountains, California1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bristolia insolens was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Bristolia insolens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBristolia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Resser 1928)