Boucotinskia elongata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoucotinskiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 3.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
4 occurrences of Boucotinskia elongata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Boucotinskia elongata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Boucotinskia elongata and its relatives
SilurianWhere Boucotinskia elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Anastrophia deflexa3 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Desquamatia3 sites
- Didymothyris didyma3 sites
- Gypidula galeata3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula3 sites
- Ptychopleurella bouchardi3 sites
- Salopina tubulata3 sites
- Brachyprion2 sites
- Camerella2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Cyrtia exporrectus2 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Dayia navicula2 sites
- Delthyris (Delthyris) elevata2 sites
- Dictyonella capewellii2 sites
- Hesperorthis gotlandica2 sites
- Homoeospira baylei2 sites
- Janius barrandi2 sites
- Levenea canaliculata2 sites
- Lissatrypa obovata2 sites
- Mesoleptostrophia filosa2 sites
- Protochonetes striatellus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Boucotinskia elongata, 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 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Boucotinskia elongata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Boucotinskia elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBoucotinskia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Munthe 1910