Brachymetopus germanicus

No picture of Brachymetopus germanicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Brachymetopus germanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachymetopusPBDB
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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 365.2 Mya and 353.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous365–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–355 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365.7 Mya353.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Brachymetopus germanicus 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

4 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

2 formations

Yonghsien — 26.20°N, 111.05°EGriotte — 44.00°N, 4.50°E

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The named rock units Brachymetopus germanicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Brachymetopus germanicus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Brachymetopus germanicus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Brachymetopus germanicus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Brachymetopus germanicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Brachymetopus germanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brachymetopus germanicus 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.

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What may have been alongside itBrachymetopus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hahn 1964