Bigotina
No picture of Bigotina 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 Bigotina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BigotinidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Bigotinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Bigotina 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
15 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Bigotina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bigotina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bigotina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Eofallotaspis tioutensis3 sites
- Hupetina antiqua3 sites
- Bigotinella2 sites
- Debrenella larvalis2 sites
- Eladiolinania castor2 sites
- Eofallotaspis prima2 sites
- Planolites montanus2 sites
- Brevipelta chouberti1 site
- Charaulachia cordubensis1 site
- Choubertella spinosa1 site
- Cochlichnus anguineus1 site
- Eladiolinania pollux1 site
- Eoredlichia1 site
- Fallotaspis bondoni1 site
- Fallotaspis plana1 site
- Issendalenia grandispina1 site
- Lemdadella1 site
- Psammichnites1 site
- Psammichnites gigas1 site
- Tiernavia tiernae1 site
- Tioutella floccofavosa1 site
- Torrowangea1 site
- Torrowangea rosei1 site
- Treptichnus bifurcus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bigotina, 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
4 references- The earliest known West Gondwanan trilobites from the Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with a revision of the Family Bigotinidae Hupe, 195311
- Trace and soft body fossils from the Pedroche Formation (Ovetian, Lower Cambrian of the Sierra de Córdoba, S Spain) and their relation to the Pedroche event2
- The Moroccan fallotaspidid trilobites revisited1
- The Lower Cambrian trilobite Bigotina and allied genera1
Each of the 15 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 Bigotina 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 Bigotina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bigotina 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 itBigotinidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cobbold 1935