Bolbina

Bolbina

Öpik, Armin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolbinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 14 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457.2 Mya449.5 Mya458.7 Mya444.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Bolbina 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

14 occurrences

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

7 formations

Langøyene — 59.90°N, 10.73°EVarlyginskaya — 58.43°N, 40.94°EDalby — 61.00°N, 15.00°EDolbor — 62.14°N, 91.49°EIzvar — 59.35°N, 29.35°EPribuzhskaya — 57.64°N, 27.91°ESubica — 48.58°N, 26.82°E

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The named rock units Bolbina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bolbina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bolbina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

192 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Bolbina, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 content1

Picture of Bolbina

Source
GBIF
Credit
Öpik, Armin
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Bolbina 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 itBolbinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henningsmoen 1953