Billingsella perfecta
No picture of Billingsella perfecta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Billingsella perfecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BillingsellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Billingsella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Billingsella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Billingsella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Billingsella perfecta 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
10 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Billingsella perfecta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Billingsella perfecta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Billingsella perfecta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Pseudodicellomus mosaicus5 sites
- Sinuella vaticina5 sites
- Angulotreta vescula4 sites
- Eoorthis remnicha4 sites
- Orygmaspis contracta4 sites
- Billingsella plicatella3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Lingulella desiderata3 sites
- Pseudagnostus josephus3 sites
- Pseudagnostus sentosus3 sites
- Ptychaspis granulosa3 sites
- ? Pinctus pullus2 sites
- Angulotreta2 sites
- Angulotreta tetonensis2 sites
- Ceratreta hebes2 sites
- Croixana bipunctata2 sites
- Drumaspis texana2 sites
- Eocrinoidea2 sites
- Huenella texana2 sites
- Idahoia serapio2 sites
- Idahoia wisconsensis2 sites
- Idahoia wyomingensis2 sites
- Lingulella2 sites
- Lytospira2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Billingsella perfecta, 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 references- Faunas and stratigraphy of the Snowy Range formation (Upper Cambrian) in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming8
- Upper Cambrian faunas from the northwest Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. Part 12
Each of the 10 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
Media content0
No picture of Billingsella perfecta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Billingsella perfecta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBillingsella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Cooper 1936