Botsfordia
Searched as Botsfordia cf. pulchra. The Paleobiology Database treats Botsfordia as the accepted name.
No picture of Botsfordia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Botsfordia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BotsfordiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516.2 Mya and 506.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Botsfordia 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 Botsfordia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Botsfordia and its relatives
CambrianWhere Botsfordia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
273 taxa- Hyolithellus micans24 sites
- Chancelloria15 sites
- Conotheca australiensis15 sites
- Pelagiella subangulata15 sites
- Davidonia taconica13 sites
- Echinodermata13 sites
- Setatella significans12 sites
- Chancelloriidae11 sites
- Davidonia rostrata9 sites
- Liangshanella sayutinae9 sites
- <Hexact>8 sites
- Discinella micans8 sites
- Hyolithida8 sites
- Indiana secunda8 sites
- Obolella crassa8 sites
- Trilobita8 sites
- Cassitella baculata7 sites
- Eoobolus priscus7 sites
- Hadrotreta taconica7 sites
- Microdictyon7 sites
- Micromitra7 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari7 sites
- <Pentact>6 sites
- Archaeocyatha6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Botsfordia, 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
Media content0
No picture of Botsfordia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Botsfordia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Botsfordia 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 itBotsfordiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1891