Borisella
No picture of Borisella 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 Borisella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntactiniidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Borisella 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Borisella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Borisella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Borisella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acodus similaris1 site
- Ambolodus triangularis1 site
- Amorphognathus duftonus1 site
- Appendispinograptus1 site
- Appendispinograptus supernus1 site
- Belodina1 site
- Brevolamnuella aff. thebesensis1 site
- Catenipora workmanae1 site
- Climacograptus hastatus1 site
- Conochitina1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Glyptograptus1 site
- Hibbardella1 site
- Inocaulis1 site
- Kalimnasphaera1 site
- Kalimnasphaera maculosa1 site
- Oistodus1 site
- Panderodus1 site
- Paraorthograptus1 site
- Paraorthograptus pacificus1 site
- Paulinites sp.1 site
- Protopanderodus insculptus1 site
- Rhabdotetradium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Borisella, 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 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
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No picture of Borisella 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 Borisella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Borisella 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 itEntactiniidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Afanasieva 2000