Bumastoides

Bumastoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IllaenidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
Vision
well-developedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 100 of 100 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 100 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 2 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 8 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 8 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461.1 Mya445.2 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

100 occurrences of Bumastoides 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

100 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

37 formations

Esbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WEsbataottine — 61.72°N, 125.93°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEdinburg — 36.88°N, 81.68°WEdinburg — 37.74°N, 79.51°WDay Point — 44.63°N, 73.33°WDay Point — 44.88°N, 73.46°WDay Point — 44.83°N, 73.35°WDay Point — 44.83°N, 73.36°WDay Point — 44.86°N, 73.33°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WWhittaker — 62.00°N, 127.00°WWhittaker — 62.50°N, 125.25°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 79.17°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSunblood — 62.00°N, 127.00°WSunblood — 61.52°N, 125.73°WSunblood — 61.47°N, 125.07°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 44.50°N, 79.20°WBobcaygeon — 44.60°N, 79.00°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.71°N, 81.94°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.75°N, 81.63°WBad Cache Rapids — 68.54°N, 81.53°WSimard — 48.47°N, 71.05°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWestfield Sandstone — 42.62°S, 146.37°EWestfield Sandstone — 42.63°S, 146.50°EAmadjuak — 68.77°N, 81.22°WKimmswick limestone — 39.05°N, 90.66°WKimmswick limestone — 38.32°N, 90.38°WDoularg — 55.20°N, 4.74°WStinchar Limestone — 55.20°N, 4.75°WShihtzupu — 27.76°N, 106.92°EIda Bay — 43.00°S, 147.00°EChaumont — 43.23°N, 75.07°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°W

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The named rock units Bumastoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bumastoides and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bumastoides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

743 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Bumastoides, 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

26 references

Each of the 100 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Bumastoides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whittington 1954)