Baylea giffordi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BayleaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Baylea giffordi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Flechado Formation1
- Allegheny Formation1
- Boggy Formation · Deese Group1
- Lazy Bend Formation1
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The named rock units Baylea giffordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baylea giffordi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Baylea giffordi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Ananias talpaensis2 sites
- Anomphalus2 sites
- Baylea inclinata2 sites
- Euconospira2 sites
- Jedria ventrica2 sites
- Orthonychia parva2 sites
- Paragoniozona nodolirata2 sites
- Platyzona hespera2 sites
- Pseudorthoceras knoxense2 sites
- Tomoceras gilliana2 sites
- Worthenia speciosa2 sites
- Amphiscapha catilloides1 site
- Amphiscapha reedsi1 site
- Anomphalidae1 site
- Anomphalus blancus1 site
- Anomphalus verruculiferus1 site
- Anthracospirifer1 site
- Apachella1 site
- Araeonema1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Archaeolithophyllum1 site
- Arribazona hesperita1 site
- Astartella1 site
- Aurimorpha varia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Baylea giffordi, 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
2 references- Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA3
- Allegheny fossil invertebrates from eastern Ohio: Gastropoda1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Baylea giffordi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Baylea giffordi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baylea giffordi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBaylea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Worthen 1884)