Brachyopterella pentagonalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachyopterellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 428.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Brachyopterella pentagonalis 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
2 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 Brachyopterella pentagonalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachyopterella pentagonalis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Brachyopterella pentagonalis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ateleaspis robusta2 sites
- Mixopterus kiaeri2 sites
- Nanahughmilleria norvegica2 sites
- Pterygotus holmi2 sites
- Stylonuroides dolichopteroides2 sites
- Xiphosurida2 sites
- Ateleaspis robustus1 site
- Bunodes1 site
- Dictyocaris1 site
- Hirella gracilis1 site
- Kiaeria limuloides1 site
- Loganellia1 site
- Logania taiti1 site
- Paralogania martinssoni1 site
- Pharyngolepis heintzi1 site
- Pharyngolepis oblongus1 site
- Phlebolepis elegans1 site
- Phyllocarida1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Pterolepis nitidus1 site
- Pterolepis sp.1 site
- Rhyncholepis1 site
- Stylonurella1 site
- Stylonurus ruedemanni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brachyopterella pentagonalis, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 Brachyopterella pentagonalis 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 Brachyopterella pentagonalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachyopterella pentagonalis 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 itBrachyopterella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Størmer 1934)