Bairdia forakerensis

No picture of Bairdia forakerensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Bairdia forakerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya259.857 Mya305 Mya253 Mya

4 occurrences of Bairdia forakerensis on record. 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

3 formations

Elmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EForaker — 36.72°N, 96.52°W

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The named rock units Bairdia forakerensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bairdia forakerensis, 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 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. 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

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No picture of Bairdia forakerensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Bairdia forakerensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bairdia forakerensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBairdia through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellett 1934