Bolaspidella reesae
No picture of Bolaspidella reesae 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 Bolaspidella reesae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolaspidellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Menomoniidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Menomoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 504.5 Mya and 497 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bolaspidella reesae 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bolaspidella reesae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bolaspidella reesae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Bolaspidella reesae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Acadagnostus acadica1 site
- Acidusus occultatus1 site
- Acrothele subsidua1 site
- Acrothyra1 site
- Acrothyra minor1 site
- Altiocculus harrisi1 site
- Amplectobelua stephenensis1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Anomalocarididae1 site
- Archaeocothurnus bifida1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Asaphiscus wheeleri1 site
- Bathyuriscus fimbriatus1 site
- Bolaspidella housensis1 site
- Brachyaspidion1 site
- Brachyaspidion sulcatum1 site
- Buccaspinea cooperi1 site
- Cambromedusa1 site
- Caryosyntrips serratus1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Chancelloria eros1 site
- Chancelloria pentacta1 site
- Choia carteri1 site
- Choia utahensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bolaspidella reesae, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bolaspidella reesae 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 Bolaspidella reesae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bolaspidella reesae 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 itBolaspidella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison and Babcock 2011