Byssonychia vera
No picture of Byssonychia vera 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 Byssonychia vera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbonychiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 600 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 451 Mya to 445.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Byssonychia vera 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Byssonychia vera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Byssonychia vera and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Byssonychia vera and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Zygospira2 sites
- ? Kinocera sp.1 site
- <conotretoid>1 site
- Achatella achates1 site
- Acidaspis1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Ateleocystites huxleyi1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Camerella1 site
- Ceratopsis chambersi1 site
- Cincinnaticrinus1 site
- Cincinnetina multisecta1 site
- Clidophorus obliquus1 site
- Climacograptus typicalis1 site
- Colpomya faba1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Craniops subtruncata1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cryptolithus tessellatus1 site
- Cuneamya1 site
- Dasycladacea1 site
- Dekayella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Byssonychia vera, 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
3 references- Upper Ordovician faunas of Ontario and Quebec2
- Upper Ordovician tempestites from Swatara Gap, Pennsylvania: depositional processes affecting the sediments and paleoecology of the fossil faunas1
- Paleoecological succession leading to a late Ordovician biostrome on Manitoulin Island, Ontario1
Each 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 Byssonychia vera 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 Byssonychia vera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Byssonychia vera 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 itAmbonychia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1893