Bekella paula

No picture of Bekella paula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bekella paula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BekellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Leptestiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Leptestiidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Leptestiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 6.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 468 Mya and 461.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 5 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician468–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468.5 Mya460.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Bekella paula 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

5 occurrences

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

1 formation

Uzunbulak — 43.92°N, 75.41°E

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The named rock units Bekella paula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bekella paula and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bekella paula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bekella paula, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Bekella paula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bekella paula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBekella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nikitina et al. 2006