Brachyelasma estonicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachyelasmaPBDB
- 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 most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Brachyelasma estonicum 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
7 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Brachyelasma estonicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachyelasma estonicum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Brachyelasma estonicum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Borealis borealis2 sites
- Clathrodictyon boreale2 sites
- Eospirigerina porkuniana2 sites
- Palaeofavosites forbesiformis2 sites
- Palaeofavosites juuru2 sites
- Palaeofavosites paulus2 sites
- Zygospiraella duboisi2 sites
- Catenipora gotlandica1 site
- Clathrodictyon kudriavzevi1 site
- Ecclimadictyon porkuni1 site
- Hindella1 site
- Mesofavosites silicificatus1 site
- Palaeofavosites aaloei1 site
- Palaeofavosites alveolaris1 site
- Palaeofavosites limbergensis1 site
- Palaeofavosites oelaensis1 site
- Paliphyllum soshkinae1 site
- Stricklandia lens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Brachyelasma estonicum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 7 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 Brachyelasma estonicum 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 estonicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachyelasma estonicum 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 itBrachyelasma through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873