Bairdoppilata

Bairdoppilata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BairdiidaePBDB
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 116 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 66 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 66 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 66 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–9.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.6–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence121.4 Mya5.333 Mya128 Mya1 Mya

66 occurrences of Bairdoppilata on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

66 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

10 formations

Tiyon — 26.12°N, 67.83°ESylhet — 25.17°N, 92.01°EJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WLa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.02°WGosport — 31.53°N, 87.95°WBateque — 27.02°N, 112.91°WKopili — 25.17°N, 92.01°E

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The named rock units Bairdoppilata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bairdoppilata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bairdoppilata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

877 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Bairdoppilata, 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

16 references

Each of the 66 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Bairdoppilata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bairdoppilata 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 itBairdiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.