Bracchiothuria ancora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BracchiothuriaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidochirotida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Aspidochirotida
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bracchiothuria ancora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Bracchiothuria ancora and its relatives
DevonianWhere Bracchiothuria ancora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Achistrum multiperforatum2 sites
- Albertechinus devonicus2 sites
- Concavocycloides givetiensis2 sites
- Furcaster cataphractus2 sites
- Lepidechinoides2 sites
- Linguacycloides trapes2 sites
- Linguaserra ligula2 sites
- Meekechinus2 sites
- Mercedescaudina langeri2 sites
- Palaeocucumaria delicata2 sites
- Protocaudina dulcis2 sites
- Achistrum1 site
- Achistrum varicum1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Astutuaster athleta1 site
- Chattaster loculus1 site
- Devonothyonites avis1 site
- Devonothyonites exporrigus1 site
- Eocaudina rimosa1 site
- Eocaudina septaforaminalis1 site
- Eospondylus ingens1 site
- Furcaster aequoreus1 site
- Gagesiniotrochus billetti1 site
- Neocyclocystoides neocyclocystoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bracchiothuria ancora, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bracchiothuria ancora 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 Bracchiothuria ancora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bracchiothuria ancora 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 itBracchiothuria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boczarowski 2001