Bouchardia

Bouchardia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BouchardiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bouchardiidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bouchardiidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Bouchardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 22 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 22 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.07 Mya33.9 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

22 occurrences of Bouchardia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

22 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

3 formations

La Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WMan Aike — 50.98°S, 72.02°WMan Aike — 50.23°S, 70.83°WDilwyn — 38.72°S, 143.17°E

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The named rock units Bouchardia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bouchardia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bouchardia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Bouchardia, 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

5 references

Each of the 22 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 Bouchardia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Bouchardia 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 itBouchardiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davidson 1850