Basilicus (Basiliella)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BasilicusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 452.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 449 Mya.
68 occurrences of Basilicus (Basiliella) 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
68 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
35 formations
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group6
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group4
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group4
- Landeyran Formation3
- Gunningbland Formation3
- Baota Formation2
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The named rock units Basilicus (Basiliella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Basilicus (Basiliella) and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Basilicus (Basiliella) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
471 taxa- Illaenus15 sites
- Thaleops ovata12 sites
- Stenopareia globosus10 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) longispinus9 sites
- Ceraurinella9 sites
- Isotelus harrisi9 sites
- Isotelus simplex9 sites
- Bumastus (Bumastoides) milleri8 sites
- Leperditia canadensis8 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris8 sites
- Calyptaulax annulata7 sites
- Gabriceraurus7 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis7 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis7 sites
- Multicostella platys7 sites
- Raphistoma stamineum7 sites
- Sceptaspis lincolnensis7 sites
- Amphilichas6 sites
- Ceraurinella scofieldi6 sites
- Cyclopyge6 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata6 sites
- Mimella vulgaris6 sites
- Neseuretus6 sites
- Pliomerops canadensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Basilicus (Basiliella), 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
31 references- The Chazy Formation and its fauna14
- The lower Ordovician stratigraphy and trilobites of the Landreyan valley and the neighbouring district of the Montagne Noire, southwestern France5
- Biostratigraphy of the Middle and Late Ordovician cephalopods of the Upper Mississippi Valley area4
- Platteville and Decorah Trilobites from Illinois and Wisconsin4
- Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania3
- Babin et al., 19823
- Regional stratigraphic tables of the north western China region: Volume of NinXia Province3
- Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York3
- Late Ordovician trilobites from the Zhusilenghaierhan area, Ejin Banner, western Inner Mongolia, China2
- Regional stratigraphic table of Northwest China, Shanxi Province Part2
- Regional Stratigraphic Table of North China2
- Regional stratigraphic table of Eastern China, Zhejiang Province2
Each of the 68 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. 19 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.
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No picture of Basilicus (Basiliella) 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 Basilicus (Basiliella), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Basilicus (Basiliella) 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 itBasilicus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kobayashi 1934)