Brachypleura

No picture of Brachypleura 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 Brachypleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RemopleurididaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Remopleurididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Remopleurididae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Remopleurididae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 410 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.4 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Ordovician — about 26 of 27 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences470–455 Mya — about 17 occurrences455–441 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458.2 Mya48.07 Mya470 Mya33 Mya

27 occurrences of Brachypleura 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

27 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

8 formations

Arnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EArnestad — 59.92°N, 10.72°EArnestad — 59.88°N, 10.51°EArnestad — 59.92°N, 10.79°EArnestad — 59.92°N, 10.62°EElnes — 60.00°N, 11.00°EElnes — 60.84°N, 11.01°EElnes — 60.77°N, 10.85°EElnes — 60.38°N, 10.55°EElnes — 59.82°N, 9.56°EElnes — 59.89°N, 10.67°EElnes — 59.80°N, 10.50°EVollen — 60.00°N, 11.00°EVollen — 59.81°N, 10.49°ESularp — 55.71°N, 13.32°EFrognerkilen — 58.91°N, 9.50°ESkagen — 58.60°N, 13.42°EPiney Point — 37.61°N, 76.76°WBohdalec — 50.08°N, 14.52°E

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The named rock units Brachypleura 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.

Brachypleura and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Brachypleura and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Brachypleura, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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. 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 content0

No picture of Brachypleura 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 Brachypleura, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Brachypleura 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 itRemopleurididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1854