Bumastus indeterminatus
No picture of Bumastus indeterminatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bumastus indeterminatus itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access 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 Bumastus indeterminatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BumastusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Styginidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 453.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Bumastus indeterminatus 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Gull River Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Verulam Formation · Simcoe Group1
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group1
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The named rock units Bumastus indeterminatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bumastus indeterminatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bumastus indeterminatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Lophospira perangulata2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
- Rafinesquina trentonensis2 sites
- Alaskadiscus disculus1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Basilicus (Basiliella) whittingtoni1 site
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) ingalli1 site
- Bathyurus superbus1 site
- Bumastoides billingsi1 site
- Calliops1 site
- Calyptaulax callicephalus1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Camerella varians1 site
- Carinaropsis minima1 site
- Catazyga1 site
- cf. Sphaerocorphe sp.1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Conularia triangulata1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cryptolithus1 site
- Cryptophragmus1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Ctenodonta nasuta1 site
- Cyrtostropha salteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bumastus indeterminatus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Bumastus indeterminatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Bumastus indeterminatus itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 Bumastus indeterminatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bumastus indeterminatus 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 itBumastus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1879)