Biernatia minor
No picture of Biernatia minor 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 Biernatia minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BiernatiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Acrotretida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Biernatia minor 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
4 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Biernatia minor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Biernatia minor and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Biernatia minor and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Paterula4 sites
- Myotreta crassa3 sites
- Conotreta mica2 sites
- Rowellella2 sites
- Scaphelasma septatum2 sites
- Spondylotreta2 sites
- Acanthambonia minutissima1 site
- Anisopleurella tricostellata1 site
- Anoptambonites pulchra1 site
- Bellimurina sulcata1 site
- Christiania subquadrata1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Conotreta apicalis1 site
- Cooperea siphonata1 site
- Craspedelia marginata1 site
- Cyclomyonia1 site
- Cyrtonotreta depressa1 site
- Dictyonites perforata1 site
- Diorthelasma parvum1 site
- Elasmothyris1 site
- Elliptoglossa ovalis1 site
- Eoconulus1 site
- Eoconulus cryptomus1 site
- Eosiphonotreta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Biernatia minor, 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 referencesEach of the 4 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 Biernatia minor 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 Biernatia minor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Biernatia minor 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBiernatia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cooper 1956)