Beecheria bovidens

Beecheria bovidens

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-SA · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 25 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 24 of 50 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 50 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 5 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 12 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 10 occurrences297–291 Mya — about 8 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 6 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307 Mya276.8 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

50 occurrences of Beecheria bovidens on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

50 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

21 formations

Graham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 33.01°N, 98.52°WGraham — 31.49°N, 99.31°WGaptank — 30.39°N, 103.07°WGaptank — 30.41°N, 103.00°WPottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WBeattie — 39.19°N, 96.57°WBeattie — 37.53°N, 96.49°WBeattie — 37.37°N, 96.54°WRed Eagle Limestone — 38.13°N, 96.33°WRed Eagle Limestone — 37.64°N, 96.49°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.07°N, 95.11°WCaddo Creek — 33.00°N, 98.67°WCaddo Creek — 31.49°N, 99.31°WWood Siding — 38.74°N, 95.99°WWood Siding — 39.11°N, 96.37°WHueco Canyon — 31.83°N, 106.05°WHueco Canyon — 31.90°N, 106.01°WVanport — 40.89°N, 80.34°WVanport — 40.99°N, 80.33°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WDouglas — 39.04°N, 95.39°WGrenola — 38.43°N, 96.20°WForaker Limestome — 39.25°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestone — 39.38°N, 96.40°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WCopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WLiangshan — 31.25°N, 104.32°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WDel Cuerto — 33.88°N, 106.34°WStory — 33.88°N, 106.34°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Beecheria bovidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beecheria bovidens and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Beecheria bovidens and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Beecheria bovidens, 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

15 references

Each of the 50 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Beecheria bovidens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Beecheria bovidens 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBeecheria through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1836)