Bavlinella
No picture of Bavlinella was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Bavlinella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcritarchaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Acritarcha
Time the record covers
At most 494 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Bavlinella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian10%
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
5 formations
- Tamengo Formation · Corumbá Group4
- Dracoisen Formation3
- Zaris Formation · Kubis Group1
- Gaskiers Formation · Conception Group1
- Tokammane Formation1
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The named rock units Bavlinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bavlinella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bavlinella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Cloudina lucianoi4 sites
- Corumbella werneri3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia crassa2 sites
- Chuaria circularis1 site
- Cloudina1 site
- Comasphaeridium1 site
- Conophyton1 site
- Helminthoidichnites marinus1 site
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica1 site
- Leiosphaeridia minutissima1 site
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima1 site
- Leiosphaeridia tenuistriata1 site
- Lophosphaeridium rarum1 site
- Navifusa1 site
- Symphaeridium sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bavlinella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Palaeontological analyses across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Upper Corumbá Group, Brazil (Análisis paleontológicos a través límite Ediacárico-Cámbrico, Grupo Alto Corumbá, Brasil)4
- Micropaleontology across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Spitsbergen4
- The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology1
- Neoproterozoic rocks of the Newfoundland Avalon Zone1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bavlinella was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Bavlinella firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Bavlinella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcritarcha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shepeleva 1963