Belubulaia packhami
No picture of Belubulaia packhami was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Belubulaia packhami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BelubulaiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 9.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Belubulaia packhami 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Malongulli Formation1
- Belubula Limestone Formation · Cliefden Caves Group1
- Belubula Formation1
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The named rock units Belubulaia packhami has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Belubulaia packhami and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Belubulaia packhami and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Anomaloides reticulatus1 site
- Anoptambonites1 site
- Astrocystites distans1 site
- Astylostroma micra1 site
- Aulocopium aurantium1 site
- Australispira1 site
- Coccoseris1 site
- Cystistroma1 site
- Doleroides1 site
- Eodinobolus1 site
- Gleesonia porosa1 site
- Gorbyoceras1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Hillophyllum1 site
- Hindia sphaeroidalis1 site
- Kometia cruciformis1 site
- Labechiella1 site
- Lewinia cavernosa1 site
- Lophospiridae1 site
- Nibiconia adnata1 site
- Nyctopora1 site
- Palmatohindia multipora1 site
- Perissocoelia habra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Belubulaia packhami, 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- Ordovician sphinctozoan sponges from central New South Wales2
- Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia1
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. 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
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No picture of Belubulaia packhami was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Belubulaia packhami, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Belubulaia packhami 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 itBelubulaia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Webby and Rigby 1985