Bemella transversa
No picture of Bemella transversa 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 Bemella transversa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BemellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 516.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bemella transversa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Bemella transversa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bemella transversa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bemella transversa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Camya thecoides1 site
- Ilsanella paupera1 site
- Kutorgina granulata n. sp.1 site
- Nevadotheca excellens1 site
- Orthotheca bayonet1 site
- Randomia aurorae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bemella transversa, 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 referenceEach 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 Bemella transversa 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 Bemella transversa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bemella transversa 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 itBemella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew 1899)