Bisulcata
No picture of Bisulcata 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 Bisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PentameridaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 422.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bisulcata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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.
Bisulcata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Bisulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Atrypoidea3 sites
- Brooksina3 sites
- Conchidium3 sites
- Conchidium bilocularis3 sites
- Crassatrypa3 sites
- Harpidium3 sites
- Lissatrypa3 sites
- Tectatrypa3 sites
- Vagranella3 sites
- Alaskospira2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypoidea linguata2 sites
- Barrandina2 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Clorinda2 sites
- Gypidula2 sites
- Levigatella2 sites
- Severobolbina2 sites
- Spirigerina supramarginalis2 sites
- Subriana2 sites
- Ancillotoechia ancillans1 site
- Atrypoidea (Lissatrypella)1 site
- Brooksina (Brooksina) alaskensis1 site
- Bumastus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bisulcata, 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 3 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No picture of Bisulcata 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 Bisulcata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPentameridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot and Johnson 1979