Beyrichiacea

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaleocopaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 180 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 13 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 9 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPermian475–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences425–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–275 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457.3 Mya276.8 Mya475 Mya261 Mya

13 occurrences of Beyrichiacea 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

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

10 formations

Costerfield Siltstone — 34.08°S, 151.02°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WGun River — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WChicotte — 49.50°N, 63.00°WLower Ktaoua — 30.42°N, 5.67°WBlack Bog — 35.00°S, 149.00°EJanesville Shale — 38.67°N, 96.12°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°W

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

Beyrichiacea and its relatives

Silurian

Where Beyrichiacea and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Beyrichiacea, 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

7 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 Beyrichiacea 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 Beyrichiacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Beyrichiacea 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 itPaleocopa through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1886