Bavarilla

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BavarillidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bavarillidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 468 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Bavarilla 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
7 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
6 formations
- Trenice Formation2
- Upper Fezouata Formation1
- Lower Fezouata Formation1
- Borrachon Formation1
- Dere Formation1
- Fezouata Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Bavarilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bavarilla and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bavarilla and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Dikelokephalina3 sites
- Geragnostus3 sites
- Pharostomina3 sites
- Acanthodiacrodium2 sites
- Apatokephalus2 sites
- Asaphellus2 sites
- Cymatiogalea2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Ectenoglossa2 sites
- Goniosphaeridium2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Lingulepis2 sites
- Lingulobolus2 sites
- Micrhystridium2 sites
- Parapilekia2 sites
- Ranorthis2 sites
- Rhopalocystis2 sites
- Stelliferidium sp.2 sites
- Symphysurus2 sites
- Tomasina2 sites
- ? Palaeosphaeronites sp.1 site
- Acrotreta1 site
- Angusticardinia1 site
- Arbusculidium sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bavarilla, 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
6 references- The lower and upper boundary of the Ordovician System of some selected regions (Celtiberia, eastern Sierra Morena) in Spain; Part I, The Lower Ordovician sequence of Celtiberia2
- Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental controls on the trilobite associations from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Shale of the central Anti-Atlas, Morocco1
- Index of Fossiliferous Localities of the Trenice Formation (Lower Ordovician of the Prague Basin, Czech Republic)1
- Les mollusques bivalves et rostroconches Ordoviciens de l’Anti-Atlas marocain: Intérêt paléogéographique de leur inventaire1
- Trilobites del Museo Geominero; I, Platypeltoides magrebiensis n. sp., Asaphina, Nileidae, del Ordovicico inferior del Anti-Atlas central, Marruecos1
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
Each of the 7 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 Bavarilla
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bavarilla 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 itBavarillidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1868)