Bailiella levyi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BailiellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Conocoryphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 506.5 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bailiella levyi 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Bailiella levyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bailiella levyi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bailiella levyi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Solenopleuropsis3 sites
- Cambraster cannati1 site
- Ceratocystis1 site
- Ctenocephalus1 site
- Ctenocystis smithi1 site
- Diplorrhina1 site
- Elliptocinctus barrandei1 site
- Eocystites1 site
- Gogia1 site
- Gyrocystis platessa1 site
- Leiagnostus1 site
- Liosolenopleura1 site
- Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides)1 site
- Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) verdiagana1 site
- Undatacinctus quadricornuta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bailiella levyi, 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- Guzhangian (mid Cambrian) trilobites from siliceous concretions of the Valtorres Formation, Iberian Chains, NE Spain2
- Equinodermos del Cámbrico medio de las Cadenas Ibéricas y de la zona Cantábrica (Norte de España)1
- Révision biostratigraphique du Cambrien moyen du versant méridional de la Montagne Noire (Languedoc, France)1
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. 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 Bailiella levyi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bailiella levyi 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 itBailiella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munier-Chalmas and Bergeron 1889)