Basiliola

Basiliola is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Basiliolidae. The species of this genus are found in the Pacific Ocean and near Madagascar.

Basiliola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BasiliolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 129 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 10 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences48.07 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Basiliola on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

10 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

6 formations

Ndalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°ELa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.74°WSuva Marl — 18.05°S, 178.45°EShinzato — 26.17°N, 127.82°ENaha — 26.31°N, 127.78°EWan — 28.29°N, 129.94°E

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The named rock units Basiliola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Basiliola and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Basiliola and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Basiliola, 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

5 references

Each of the 10 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 content1

Picture of Basiliola

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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBasiliolinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1908