Becksia plicata
No picture of Becksia plicata 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 Becksia plicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BecksiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Becksia plicata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Becksia plicata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Becksia plicata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus2 sites
- Astropegma2 sites
- Coeloscyphia racemosa2 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis2 sites
- Etheridgia mirabilis2 sites
- Laocoetis fittoni2 sites
- Leiostracosia angustata2 sites
- Leptophragma micropora2 sites
- Periphragella plicata2 sites
- Polyopesia angustata2 sites
- Rhizopoterion2 sites
- Spirolophia tortuosa2 sites
- Sporadoscinia alcyonoides2 sites
- Aphrocallistes1 site
- Becksia crispata1 site
- Camerospongia (Camerospongia) fungiformis1 site
- Cinclidella angustata1 site
- Coeloptychium subagaricoides1 site
- Eurete halli1 site
- Laocoetis relicta1 site
- Laocoetis virgatula1 site
- Lefroyella favoidea1 site
- Napaeana striata1 site
- Plocoscyphia communis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Becksia plicata, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Becksia plicata 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 Becksia plicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Becksia plicata 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 itBecksia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sinzov 1878)