Bullatella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AparchitidaePBDB
- 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 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.
9 occurrences of Bullatella 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician78%
- Devonian22%
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
7 formations
- Ion Formation · Galena Group2
- Decorah Shale Formation1
- Cummingsville Formation1
- Spechts Ferry Formation · Galena Group1
- Guttenberg Formation · Galena Group1
- Dunleith Formation · Galena Group1
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The named rock units Bullatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bullatella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bullatella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Aparchites7 sites
- Bassleratia7 sites
- Bellornatia7 sites
- Bollia7 sites
- Byrsolopsina7 sites
- Bythocypris7 sites
- Ceratopsis7 sites
- Cryptophyllus7 sites
- Dicranella7 sites
- Euprimitia7 sites
- Eurychilina7 sites
- Hallatia7 sites
- Halliella7 sites
- Hesperidella7 sites
- Krausella7 sites
- Laccoprimitia7 sites
- Leperditella7 sites
- Maratia7 sites
- Parabolbina7 sites
- Paraschmidtella7 sites
- Pedomphalella7 sites
- Primitiella7 sites
- Primitiella constricta7 sites
- Punctaparchites rugosus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Bullatella, 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- Middle and Upper Ordovician Ostracoda of Minnesota and Iowa7
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Bullatella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bullatella, 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 itAparchitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.