Brachyelasma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StreptelasmatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 454 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 15 of 38 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 23 of 38 occurrencesSilurian459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454 Mya432.9 Mya458.8 Mya426.1 Mya

38 occurrences of Brachyelasma 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

38 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

18 formations

Hidden Valley Dolomite — 36.43°N, 116.63°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.71°N, 117.59°WHidden Valley Dolomite — 36.72°N, 117.47°WVasalemma — 58.62°N, 23.31°EVasalemma — 59.30°N, 24.65°EXiangshuyuan — 27.52°N, 108.23°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EKuanyinchiao — 27.50°N, 108.23°EKuanyinchiao — 27.60°N, 105.42°EMoyerokan — 67.31°N, 103.83°EBeiguoshan — 35.00°N, 107.00°ELeijiatun — 28.00°N, 108.00°ELojoping — 30.77°N, 111.33°ELower Wengxiang — 26.50°N, 108.00°ELalong — 34.67°N, 104.83°EBelaya — 51.63°N, 90.30°EKhangay — 46.60°N, 93.27°EWufeng — 27.81°N, 106.38°ETamsalu — 59.16°N, 26.09°EGur'yanovka — 52.22°N, 87.34°ETekhten — 51.23°N, 84.79°EJohnson Spring — 36.91°N, 118.07°W

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The named rock units Brachyelasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachyelasma and its relatives

Silurian

Where Brachyelasma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Brachyelasma, 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

14 references

Each of the 38 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. 2 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Brachyelasma 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 itStreptelasmatidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lang et al. 1940