Bicuspina multicostellata
No picture of Bicuspina multicostellata 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 Bicuspina multicostellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BicuspinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 463.3 Mya and 457.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bicuspina multicostellata 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bicuspina multicostellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bicuspina multicostellata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bicuspina multicostellata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Actinopeltis completa2 sites
- Cekovia2 sites
- Deanaspis2 sites
- Echinosphaerites2 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra2 sites
- Schizotreta2 sites
- Selenopeltis buchi2 sites
- Stenopareia2 sites
- Aegiromena aquila1 site
- Anaconularia1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Antispira ferrigena1 site
- Antispira praecox1 site
- Archaeoconularia1 site
- Archaeoconularia insignis1 site
- Aristocystites bohemicus1 site
- Ascocystites1 site
- Ascocystites micraster1 site
- Asinomphalus antiqua1 site
- Bucanopsina calypso1 site
- Bucanopsis comata1 site
- Caleidocrinus1 site
- Calymenella1 site
- Caryon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bicuspina multicostellata, 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
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No picture of Bicuspina multicostellata 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 Bicuspina multicostellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bicuspina multicostellata 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.
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What may have been alongside itBicuspina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1951