Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Basilicus (Basiliella)PBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 461 Mya.
3 occurrences of Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Asaphellus2 sites
- Ampyx priscus1 site
- Anedriophus moroccoensis1 site
- Argodiscus espilezorum1 site
- Asaphidae1 site
- Azygograptus1 site
- Bactroceras1 site
- Balanocystites1 site
- Balantiocystis1 site
- Bathmoceras australe1 site
- Carcassonnella courtessolei1 site
- Cavernolites1 site
- Cheiruridae1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Ctenodonta1 site
- Destombesiceras zagorense1 site
- Didymograptus1 site
- Didymograptus nicholsoni1 site
- Ekaterodonta hesperica1 site
- Expansograptus1 site
- Foulonia peregrina1 site
- Goniophora (Cosmogoniophora)1 site
- Graptolithina1 site
- Hemiprionodonta lusitanica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi, 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- Palaeogeography and palaeoecology of early Floian (Early Ordovician) cephalopods from the Upper Fezouata Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco1
- Giant Trilobites from Lower Ordovician of Morocco1
- The Ordovician succession from the western Iberian Ranges (NE Spain): a review with new data1
Each of the 3 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 Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi 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) destombesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Basilicus (Basiliella) destombesi 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 (Basiliella) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vidal 1998