Bekena
No picture of Bekena 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 Bekena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BairdiocyprididaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 127 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 274.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Bekena on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bekena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bekena and its relatives
PermianWhere Bekena and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acanthopecten2 sites
- Amphiscapha2 sites
- Anisopyge2 sites
- Anomphalus2 sites
- Apachella2 sites
- Astartella2 sites
- Bakevellia2 sites
- Bellerophontoidea2 sites
- Composita2 sites
- Glabrocingulum2 sites
- Glyptospira2 sites
- Goniasma2 sites
- Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) politus2 sites
- Naticopsis2 sites
- Nuculavus2 sites
- Oncochilus2 sites
- Palaeostylus2 sites
- Permophorus2 sites
- Platyworthenia2 sites
- Polidevcia2 sites
- Pseudomonotis2 sites
- Pseudorthoceras2 sites
- Schizodus2 sites
- Soleniscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bekena, 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- Early Permian fossil communities in northeastern Nevada and northwestern Utah2
- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]1
Each of the 3 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 Bekena 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 Bekena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bekena 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 itBairdiocyprididae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.