Bainbridgia

Bainbridgia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyrgiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393.47 Mya387.95 Mya400 Mya381.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Bainbridgia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

Kess-Kess — 31.38°N, 4.07°WTaboumakhlouf — 30.82°N, 4.53°W

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The named rock units Bainbridgia 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.

Bainbridgia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bainbridgia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bainbridgia, 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

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bainbridgia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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 itPyrgiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ball 1933