Bassettella alata

Bassettella alata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BassettellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 1.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.9 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 456.8 Mya to 449.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.9 Mya452.8 Mya457.3 Mya449.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Bassettella alata 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

6 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

3 formations

Vasalemma — 59.24°N, 24.29°EJohvi — 59.35°N, 24.56°EJohvi — 59.31°N, 24.43°EKahula — 59.28°N, 27.24°E

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The named rock units Bassettella alata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bassettella alata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bassettella alata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bassettella alata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Bassettella alata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Bassettella alata 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 itBassettella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hints 2010