Babinka

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BabinkidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 9.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
20 occurrences of Babinka 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
20 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
11 formations
- Sarka Formation5
- Landeyran Formation3
- Saint-Chinian Formation2
- Upper Fezouata Formation2
- La Maurerie Formation1
- Setso Formation1
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The named rock units Babinka 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.
Babinka and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Babinka and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
456 taxa- Redonia11 sites
- Coxiconchia10 sites
- Asaphellus7 sites
- Carcassonnella courtessolei7 sites
- Colpocoryphe7 sites
- Ekaterodonta7 sites
- Lesueurilla prima7 sites
- Paramegalaspis7 sites
- Anatifopsis6 sites
- Didymograptus6 sites
- Orthambonites6 sites
- Prionocheilus6 sites
- Ampyx5 sites
- Balantiocystis5 sites
- Bathycheilus5 sites
- Neseuretus5 sites
- Ribeiria5 sites
- Sinuites5 sites
- Spondyglossella5 sites
- Synek5 sites
- Taihungshania5 sites
- Thoralispira laevis5 sites
- Bathmoceras4 sites
- Conotreta4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Babinka, 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
12 references- Babin et al., 19826
- Bivalves from the Middle Ordovician Šárka Formation (Prague Basin, Czech Republic)3
- Contribution à l'étude de l'Ordovicien inférieur de la Montagne Noire : biostratigraphie et révision des Agnostida2
- Molluscs of the Lower Ordovician Cabrières Lagerstätte, France – diversity and distribution1
- Solutan echinoderms from the Fezouata Shale Lagerstätte (Lower Ordovician, Morocco): diversity, exceptional preservation, and palaeoecological implications1
- Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of early Floian (Early Ordovician) cephalopods from the Upper Fezouata Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco1
- Reappraisal of the Ordovician stratigraphy and paleontology of Trás-os-Montes (Central Iberian Zone, NE Portugal)1
- Arenig cephalopods from Bolivia1
- Chlupáč et al., 19981
- Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)1
- Estudio bioestratigrafico del Llanvirn y Llandeilo (Dobrotiviense) en la parte meridional de la zona Centroiberica (España)1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
Each of the 20 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. 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 Babinka
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Babinka 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 itBabinkidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1881