Billingsella tonkiniana
No picture of Billingsella tonkiniana 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 Billingsella tonkiniana, 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.
2 occurrences of Billingsella tonkiniana 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
2 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
- Bestogai Formation1
- Pele La Quartzite Formation · Pele La Group1
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The named rock units Billingsella tonkiniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Billingsella tonkiniana and its relatives
CambrianWhere Billingsella tonkiniana and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Kaolishania1 site
- Linguanaspis sangae1 site
- Taipaikia glabra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Billingsella tonkiniana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Cambrian rocks and faunas of the Black Mountain region, Bhutan1
- Cambrian - early Ordovician brachiopods from Malyi Karatau, the western Balkhash region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia1
Each 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
Media content0
No picture of Billingsella tonkiniana 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 Billingsella tonkiniana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Billingsella tonkiniana 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 itBillingsella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mansuy 1915