Botsfordiidae

No picture of Botsfordiidae 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 Botsfordiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrotheloideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lingulida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lingulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 503 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 500.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 123 of 123 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences528–526 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 11 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 11 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 11 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 11 occurrences516–514 Mya — about 18 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 18 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 16 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 11 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 7 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516 Mya503 Mya539.6 Mya499.7 Mya

123 occurrences of Botsfordiidae 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

123 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

27 formations

Bastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WBastion — 73.52°N, 24.68°WBastion — 72.85°N, 25.03°WYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EYuanshan — 25.50°N, 102.40°EYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 25.40°N, 103.38°EYuanshan — 24.67°N, 102.65°EYuanshan — 25.68°N, 102.17°EForteau — 51.02°N, 56.81°WForteau — 51.47°N, 56.84°WForteau — 51.00°N, 56.66°WForteau — 50.98°N, 56.85°WParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°EWulongqing — 25.68°N, 102.17°EYu'anshan — 25.55°N, 102.40°EYu'anshan — 24.77°N, 102.58°EAndamooka Limestone — 30.12°S, 137.16°EKussak — 32.65°N, 73.00°EKussak — 32.74°N, 73.14°EBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WLolab — 34.51°N, 74.34°EShuijingtuo — 32.53°N, 107.92°EShuijingtuo — 30.50°N, 111.16°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.52°S, 134.47°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.90°S, 134.33°EMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°ECymbric Vale — 31.22°S, 142.33°EDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°ESchodack — 42.53°N, 73.69°WCape Melville — 62.03°S, 57.60°WShipai — 30.79°N, 111.17°EGislov — 55.52°N, 14.35°ESinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°ECoobowie Limestone — 34.67°S, 137.85°EAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EShabakty — 43.68°N, 69.68°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°E

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The named rock units Botsfordiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Botsfordiidae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Botsfordiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

662 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Botsfordiidae, 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

35 references

Each of the 123 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Botsfordiidae 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 Botsfordiidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Botsfordiidae 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 itAcrotheloidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schindewolf 1955