Rectobairdia firmata

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Bairdia (Rectobairdia)PBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 4 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences274.4 Mya254.14 Mya283.9 Mya251.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Rectobairdia firmata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

13 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

4 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EArqov — 31.97°N, 34.87°EArqov — 31.26°N, 35.27°EArqov — 30.98°N, 34.81°ETak Fa — 15.83°N, 100.93°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°E

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The named rock units Rectobairdia firmata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rectobairdia firmata and its relatives

Permian

Where Rectobairdia firmata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Rectobairdia firmata, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Rectobairdia firmata 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 itBairdia (Rectobairdia) through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chen 1982