Borestus wrighti
No picture of Borestus wrighti 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 Borestus wrighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BorestusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Phymatopleuridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Eotomarioidea
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Borestus wrighti 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
- Middle Limestone Va Cyclothem Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- Lower Limestone Formation · Clackmannan Group1
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The named rock units Borestus wrighti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Borestus wrighti and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Borestus wrighti and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Adinocrinus1 site
- Amphicrinus1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Amplexus coralloides1 site
- Anemetocrinus1 site
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus1 site
- Aphelecrinus1 site
- Arctichthyocrinus springeri1 site
- Athyris lamellosa1 site
- Aulophyllum1 site
- Caldenocrinus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Claviphyllum1 site
- Cosmetocrinus1 site
- Cribanocrinus1 site
- Cyathaxonia cornu1 site
- Eomarginifera1 site
- Eomarginifera tissingtonensis cambriensis1 site
- Euomphalus catillus1 site
- Euphemites urei1 site
- Fifeocrinus1 site
- Gigantoproductus1 site
- Heterophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Borestus wrighti, 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
2 references- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire1
- Revision of the Scottish Carboniferous Pleurotomariidae1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Borestus wrighti 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 Borestus wrighti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Borestus wrighti 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 itBorestus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1940