Billingsaria parvituba
No picture of Billingsaria parvituba 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 Billingsaria parvituba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BillingsariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Billingsaria parvituba 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
- Amadjuak Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group1
- Bad Cache Rapids Formation1
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The named rock units Billingsaria parvituba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Billingsaria parvituba and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Billingsaria parvituba and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Amplexopora2 sites
- Bumastoides2 sites
- Nasutimena undulosa2 sites
- Plaesiomys iphigenia2 sites
- Strophomena2 sites
- <Astraeospongid>1 site
- <Isotelid>1 site
- <Scolecodonts>1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Ceraurus1 site
- Coccoseris astomata1 site
- Cyrtophyllum1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Endoceras1 site
- Eoleperditia1 site
- Esthonia1 site
- Gorbyoceras1 site
- Grewingkia robusta1 site
- Helopora1 site
- Kochoceras1 site
- Kochoceras cuneiforme1 site
- Liospira1 site
- Lophospira1 site
- Maclurites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Billingsaria parvituba, 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 Billingsaria parvituba 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 Billingsaria parvituba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Billingsaria parvituba 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 itBillingsaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Troedsson 1928)