Bancroftina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanellinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Dalmanellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 9.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 455 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.7 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Bancroftina 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
12 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
6 formations
- Cheney Longville Formation1
- Tufs et calcaires de Rosan Formation1
- Rosan Formation1
- Zalesia Formation1
- Hirnant Limestone Formation1
- Portrane Limestone Formation · Duncannon Group1
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The named rock units Bancroftina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bancroftina and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bancroftina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Dalmanella8 sites
- Paracraniops5 sites
- Brongniartella4 sites
- Kinnella4 sites
- Sowerbyella4 sites
- Broeggerolithus3 sites
- Dolerorthis3 sites
- Eostropheodonta3 sites
- Hirnantia3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Modiolopsis3 sites
- Palaeoglossa3 sites
- Plectothyrella3 sites
- Strophomena3 sites
- Tallinnella3 sites
- Tentaculites3 sites
- Aegiromena2 sites
- Bicuspina2 sites
- Cliftonia2 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria2 sites
- Dalmanitina2 sites
- Eostropheodonta hirnantensis2 sites
- Flexicalymene2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Bancroftina, 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
7 references- Evolution, succession & replacement in the type Caradoc (Ordovician) benthic faunas of England3
- Brachiopodes articules de la coupe de l'ile de Rosan (Crozon, Finistere); formation des tufs et calcaires de Rosan (Caradoc-Ashgill)2
- The environmental distribution of associations belonging to the Hirnantia fauna - evidence from North Wales & Norway2
- Upper Ordovician-Brachiopods from Poland and Britain2
- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example1
- The Fauna of the Potrane Limestone, II1
- The Caradocian brachiopod faunas of the Bala District, Merionethshire1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Bancroftina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bancroftina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itDalmanellinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sinclair 1946