Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Bathyurus (Raymondites)PBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bathyuridae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 453.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.
6 occurrences of Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger 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- 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
4 formations
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Chaumont Formation1
- Decorah Formation1
- Macy Formation · Plattin Group1
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The named rock units Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
276 taxa- Ceraurus pleurexanthemus4 sites
- Ctenodonta nasuta4 sites
- Cyrtostropha salteri4 sites
- Hesperorthis tricenaria4 sites
- Hormotoma gracilis4 sites
- Spyroceras bilineatum4 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra3 sites
- Cyrtodonta3 sites
- Eoleperditia3 sites
- Helicotoma planulata3 sites
- Isotelus iowensis3 sites
- Lambeophyllum profundum3 sites
- Lichenaria typa3 sites
- Lophospira perangulata3 sites
- Nicholsonella3 sites
- Pachydictya3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Streptelasma corniculum3 sites
- Subulites conradi3 sites
- Ambonychia2 sites
- Bathyurus (Raymondites) ingalli2 sites
- Bucania halli2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Bumastus (Bumastoides) milleri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger, 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- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario2
- A Middle Ordovician fauna from Braeside, Ottawa Valley, Ontario1
- The Kimmswick and Plattin Limestones of Northeastern Missouri1
- The fauna of the residuary Auburn chert of Lincoln County, Missouri1
- The Chazy Formation and its fauna1
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. 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 Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bathyurus (Raymondites) spiniger 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 itBathyurus (Raymondites) through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)