Brachyopterus

Brachyopterus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachyopteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452.8 Mya422.7 Mya459 Mya418.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Brachyopterus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

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

Fiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°W

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The named rock units Brachyopterus 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.

Brachyopterus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Brachyopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Brachyopterus, 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 references

Each 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

Media content1

Picture of Brachyopterus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Brachyopterus 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 itBrachyopteridae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stormer 1951