Brachymetopus

Brachymetopus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachymetopinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Brachymetopidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 11 of 77 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 60 of 77 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 77 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 77 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences370–366 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–362 Mya — about 4 occurrences362–358 Mya — about 6 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 11 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 13 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 10 occurrences345–341 Mya — about 6 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 7 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 3 occurrences333–329 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–270 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya375 Mya249 Mya

77 occurrences of Brachymetopus 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

77 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

34 formations

Malchi Creek — 23.43°S, 150.37°EYonghsien — 26.20°N, 111.05°EBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WMilldale Limestone — 53.13°N, 1.53°WErdbach Limestone — 51.28°N, 6.83°EPilton Shales — 51.10°N, 4.15°WBee Low Limestones — 53.35°N, 1.80°WLeffe — 50.45°N, 5.28°EWaulsort — 50.23°N, 5.00°ECarboniferous Limestone — 50.22°N, 4.96°ECarboniferous Limestone — 50.00°N, 5.00°EOderen — 47.87°N, 7.00°EVegamian — 43.13°N, 5.03°WVegamian — 42.95°N, 5.50°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WWootton — 32.50°S, 152.08°EWootton — 32.63°S, 152.10°ELodgepole — 45.10°N, 110.79°WHopedale Limestones — 53.13°N, 1.53°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WChouteau — 38.98°N, 92.56°WEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EGriotte — 44.00°N, 4.50°ECracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WRossendale — 51.79°N, 3.32°WCaballero — 32.90°N, 105.82°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°W

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The named rock units Brachymetopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachymetopus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Brachymetopus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

600 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Brachymetopus, 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

34 references

Each of the 77 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. 22 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 content1

Picture of Brachymetopus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Brachymetopus 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 itBrachymetopinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1847